Can ‘flow’ of a liquid be manipulated according to the packing/tiling of atomic construction.

Crystals are solids in which constituent atoms, molecules or ions are packed into a regularly ordered repeating pattern of building blocks. The smallest repeating structure of a solid is called a unit cell and unit cells combine to form a network called a Crystal Lattice. Lattices can be composed of one, two, three, four and more numbered-component designs depending on the different types of atoms used. Graphite, for example, is a one-component design using carbon atoms which forms 2-D sheets. Each carbon atom within the sheet is bonded to three other carbon atoms to form a hexagonal structure which can be ‘tiled’, i.e., laid out flat. Given this example, other types of crystal structures can be created and the question to be asked is; when these become liquid but keep their unit cell integrity, how is the composition and dynamics of ‘flow’ determined by the unit cell structures?

It has been shown that ‘flow’ can be manipulated by nozzle shape …. ‘when a jet of liquid drops from a non-circular nozzle it can form a wave of broad flattened and evenly spaced sections of liquid that are alternately oriented at 90 degrees to each other’, (‘Flowing liquid ‘chains’ best described by Niels Bohr, not Lord Rayleigh’, Sam Jarman, Physics World Vol 35 No12 December 2022, p8). This being the case the atomic structure of liquid should also influence the dynamics and composition of flow. Research also the composite ‘flow’ of a rocket propulsion system.