Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics

Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics

Yves Couder, Emmanuel Fort, and coworkers recently discovered that a millimetric droplet sustained on the surface of a vibrating fluid bath may self-propel through a resonant interaction with its own wave field. This article reviews experimental evidence indicating that the walking droplets exhibit certain features previously thought to be exclusive to the microscopic, quantum realm. It then re...

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics in a rotating frame: Exotic orbits

Shock Wave Solutions for Radiation Hydrodynamics

This study describes a semi-analytic solution of planar radiative shock waves in which the radiation model is grey nonequilibrium diffusion. The solution may be used to verify radiation-hydrodynamics codes. Comparisons are made with the equilibrium diffusion solutions of Lowrie and Rauenzahn [1]. Although the physics of radiative shocks are fairly well known, previous solutions have been approx...

Chiral Alfvén Wave in Anomalous Hydrodynamics.

We study the hydrodynamic regime of chiral plasmas at high temperature. We find a new type of gapless collective excitation induced by chiral effects in an external magnetic field. This is a transverse wave, and it is present even in incompressible fluids, unlike the chiral magnetic and chiral vortical waves. The velocity is proportional to the coefficient of the gravitational anomaly. We brief...

The new wave of pilot-wave theory