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Publications
RESEARCH PAPERS
Galloping bubbles
Guan, J. H., Tamim, S. I., Magoon, C. W., Stone, H. A., Sáenz, P. J.
Nature Communications 16, 1572 (2025) - (PDF)
APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award Winner (VIDEO)
Diffraction of walking drops by a standing Faraday wave
Primkulov, B. K., Evans, D. J., Frumkin, V., Sáenz, P. J. and Bush, J. W. M.
Physical Review Research 7, 013226 (2025) - (PDF)
Anderson localization of walking droplets
Abraham, A. J., Malkov, S., Ljubetic, F. A., Durey, M., Sáenz, P. J.
Physical Review X 14(3), 031047 (2024) - (PDF)
APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Entry (VIDEO)
Perspectives on Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics
Bush, J. W. M., Frumkin, V., Sáenz, P. J.
Applied Physics Letters 125, 030503 (2024) - (PDF)
Minimal Quantization Model in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics
Blitstein, A. M., Rosales, R.R., Sáenz, P. J.
Physical Review Letters 132, 104003 (2024) - (PDF)
Traveling Faraday waves
Guan, J. H., Magoon, C. W., Durey, M., Camassa, R., Sáenz, P. J.
Physical Review Fluids 110501, 1–5 (2023) - (PDF)
APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award Winner (VIDEO)
Emergent universal statistics in nonequilibrium systems with dynamical scale selection
Heinonen, V., Abraham, A. J., Slomka, J., Burns, K.J., Sáenz, P. J., Dunkel, J.
Under review (2022) (PDF)
Emergent order in hydrodynamic spin lattices
Sáenz, P. J., Pucci, G. Turton, S.E., Goujon, A., Rosales, R.R., Dunkel, J., Bush, J.W.M.
Nature, 596, 58–62 (2021) - (PDF) (Movies)
A hydrodynamic analog of Friedel oscillations
Sáenz, P. J., Cristea-Platon, T., & Bush, J. W. M.
Science Advances, 6, 20, eaay9234, (2020) - (PDF) (Movies)
Spin lattices of walking droplets
Sáenz, P.J. , Pucci, G., Goujon, A., Cristea-Platon, T., Dunkel, J., Bush, J.W.M.
Physical Review Fluids, 3, 100508 (2018) - (PDF)
APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award Winner (VIDEO)
Walking Droplets in a Circular Corral: Quantisation and Chaos
Cristea-Platon, T., Sáenz, P.J. , Bush, J.W.M.
Chaos, 28, 096116 (2018). (PDF)
Statistical projection effects in a hydrodynamic pilot-wave system
Sáenz, P. J., Cristea-Platon, T., & Bush, J. W. M.
Nature Physics, 14, 315-319 (2018). (PDF)
Hydrodynamic analog of particle trapping with the Talbot effect
Sungar, N., Tambasco, L. D., Pucci, G., Sáenz, P. J., & Bush, J. W. M.
Physical Review Fluids, 2(10), 103602 (2017). (PDF)
Dynamics and universal scaling law in geometrically-controlled sessile drop evaporation
Sáenz, P. J., Wray, A. W., Che, Z., Matar, O. K., Valluri, P., Kim, J., & Sefiane, K.
Nature Communications, 8, 14783 (2017). (PDF)
Non-specular reflection of walking droplets
Pucci, G., Sáenz, P. J., Faria, L. M., & Bush, J. W. M.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 804, R3 (2016). (PDF)
Evaporation of sessile drops: a three-dimensional approach
Sáenz, P. J., Sefiane, K., Kim, J., Matar, O. K., & Valluri, P.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 772, 705–739 (2015). (PDF)
On phase change in Marangoni-driven flows and its effects on the hydrothermal-wave instabilities
Sáenz, P. J., Valluri, P., Sefiane, K., Karapetsas, G., & Matar, O. K.
Physics of Fluids, 26(2), 24114 (2014). (PDF)
Sáenz, P. J., Valluri, P., Sefiane, K., Karapetsas, G., & Matar, O. K.
Physics of Fluids, 25(9), 94101 (2013). (PDF)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Sáenz, P. J., Valluri, P., Sefiane, K., & Matar, O. K.
Procedia IUTAM, 15, 116–123 (2015). (PDF)
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
APS March Meeting (Boston, USA, 2019)
APS DFD Meeting (Atlanta, USA, 2018)
European Fluid Mechanics Conference (Vienna, Austria, 2018)
Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs VIII, Brown University, (Providence, USA, 2018)
Experimental Chaos \& Complexity Conference (Madrid, Spain, 2018)
APS March Meeting (Los Angeles, USA, 2018)
APS DFD Meeting (Denver, USA, 2017)
European Fluid Mechanics Conference (Seville, Spain, 2016)
APS DFD Meeting (Portland, USA, 2016)
ICTAM International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Montreal, Canada, 2016)
APS DFD Meeting (Boston, USA, 2015)
UK Heat Transfer Conference (Edinburgh, UK, 2015)
APS DFD Meeting (San Francisco, USA, 2014)
ITTW2014 Two-phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications (Baltimore, USA, 2014)
Chemical Engineering Day UK (Manchester, UK, 2014)
Symposium on Multiphase Flow Based Cooling in High Power Devices (Shanghai, China, 2014)
APS DFD Meeting (Pittsburgh, USA, 2013)
Chemical Engineering Day UK (London, UK, 2013)
APS DFD Meeting (San Diego, USA, 2012)
APS DFD Meeting (Baltimore, USA, 2011)
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