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SUBMITTER: Antkowiak A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3127932 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antkowiak Arnaud A Audoly Basile B Josserand Christophe C Neukirch Sébastien S Rivetti Marco M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110613 26
A drop impacting a target cutout in a thin polymer film is wrapped by the film in a dynamic sequence involving both capillary forces and inertia. Different 3D structures can be produced from a given target by slightly varying the impact parameters. A simplified model for a nonlinear dynamic Elastica coupled with a drop successfully explains this shape selection and yields detailed quantitative agreement with experiments. This first venture into the largely unexplored dynamics of elastocapillary ...[more]