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  • Gallery of Fluid Motion
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The crown: Rolling splash

L. Kahouadji1,*, M. Shams1, D. Panda1, A. M. Abdal1,2, S. Shin3, J. Chergui4, D. Juric4,5, and O. K. Matar1

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Environmental and Sustainability Engineering, College of Engineering and Energy, Abdullah Al Salem University, Kuwait City 12037, Kuwait
  • 3Department of Mechanical and System Design Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Republic of Korea
  • 4Université Paris Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), Orsay 91400, France
  • 5Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom

  • *Contact author: l.kahouadji@imperial.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 110511 – Published 20 November, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t2zw-4577

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This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2024 American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original poster is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2024.GFM.P2685516

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 110511– Published 20 November, 2025
  • Received 27 March 2025
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