Physicists investigate the cause of striped patterns formed by fine particles deposited on surfaces
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 09:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Patterns fascinate. Particularly stripes. Found in nature in zebras, they are also found in the most unlikely places, such as powdered drugs' mixing vessel walls. In an article about to be published in the European Physical Journal E, Nirmal Thyagu and his colleagues from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, propose a traffic model to predict the formation of different patterns, ranging from stripes to spots.