Marangoni Blossom

Marangoni Blossom Alireza Hooshanginejad, Cornell University Omar K. Matar, Imperial College London Sunghwan Jung, Cornell University DOI: When a drop of water spreads over a bath of glycerin, the miscible interface between water and glycerin becomes unstable. As fingers grow at the moving front, an inward Marangoni flow gives rise to a unique pattern formation. See other videos from the 2021 Gallery of Fluid Motion: