| Language: | English |
|---|---|
| Type: | Article |
| Authors: | Masatoshi Ichikawa, Nobuyuki Magome and Kenichi Yoshikawa |
| Journal: | Europhysics Letters |
| ISSN: | 0295-5075 |
| Volume: | 66 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Month: | 5 |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Actual year: | 2004 |
| Pages: | 545-551 |
| doi: | 10.1209/epl/i2003-10240-x |
| Abstract: | We report the rhythmic growth and disappearance of a micrometer-sized water droplet under stationary nonequilibrium conditions, with a periodicity of similar to 1 s. Under a supersaturated vapor, a micro water droplet nucleates on a glass plate, grows and then disappears when the growing droplet touches a larger water sink, and this cycle repeats in a rhythmic manner. We discuss the rhythmic phenomenon as a kind of limit cycle oscillation. |
Masatoshi Ichikawa, Nobuyuki Magome and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Europhysics Letters, 66, 545-551 (2004)