Author Archives: nicovdw
Spin-Leidenfrost
The ESA ‘Spin Your Thesis!’ programme gives university students the opportunity to perform a scientific or technology experiment which is linked to their project, by participating in a centrifuge campaign that provides hypergravity conditions. The experiments are carried out in the … Continue reading
Quandrops website
The website dedicated to our project “QUANDROPS” (2012-2017) is now open. This project aims to study the particle-wave association of bouncing droplets. In recent experiments, such droplets have indeed displayed a number of surprising analogies with quantum particles, including tunneling and … Continue reading
Pulses in a vertical granular column
We investigated the dynamics of a vertical column of 12 beads submitted to a series of taps. Impulses are strong enough to eject beads. The motion of the beads are recorded using a high-speed camera. Depending on the frequency of taps, … Continue reading
Self-assembled microswimmers
Locomotion at low Reynolds number is a key physical mechanism [1] for microscopic living organisms, but has lots of technological applications like nanomachines and microrobots [2]. Our last paper [3] proposes a tricky experiment for generating low Reynolds swimming of … Continue reading
Faraday instability at foam/water interface
Foams are common fluid entities of our everyday life. Our group is, among others, involved in ESA projects on the foam generation and stability under microgravity [1]. On Earth, the gravitational drainage dries the foam such that an interface between … Continue reading
