Surface viscosity effects on the motion of self-propelling boat in a channel

• Main Authors: Aliperio, Mark Gino E., Confesor, Mark Nolan
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Propellers—Viscosity; Boats and boating; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11262
• Institution: De La Salle University

Self-propelled droplets have been conceived as simple chemical toy models to mimic motile biological samples such as bacteria. The motion of these droplets is believe to be due to the surface tension gradient in the boundary of the droplet. We performed experiments to look at the effect of varying t...