rotating growing icicle with multiple tips

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Channel: Stephen Morris · 2010 · Science & Technology

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A time lapse movie of an icicle growing from a rotating support.  The total growth time is about 10 hours and the support rotates once every 4 minutes.  Tap water and still air were used.  

The icicle shows the growth of multiple tips and a rippling instability.

See
http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/papers_icicles.html

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