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  • Gallery of Fluid Motion
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Dripping down the rivulet

Gaétan Lerisson*, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Gioele Balestra, and François Gallaire

  • Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland

  • *gaetan.lerisson@epfl.ch

Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 100504 – Published 24 October, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.100504

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This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2018 American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original video is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2018.GFM.V0070.

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Collection of papers associated with the 2018 Gallery of Fluid Motion. These award winning works were presented at the annual meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.

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