Leidenfrost gas ratchets driven by thermal creep
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en
Article de revue
Ce document a été publié dans
Physical Review Letters. 2011-10-13, vol. 107, p. 164502 (4)
American Physical Society
Résumé en anglais
We show that thermal creep is at the origin of the recently discovered Leidenfrost ratchet, where liquid droplets float on a vapor layer along a heated saw-tooth surface and accelerate to velocities of up to 40 cm/s. As ...Lire la suite >