Figure 5: Domain size scaling.
Typical equilibrium wrinkle patterns in a hexagonal section of a thin spherical shell on a liquid substrate. All simulation parameters are kept fixed, except for the sheet thickness. The Föppl–von Kármán number γ of the system is indicated above each pattern. While the top-left pattern is clearly divided into six domains, increasing γ seems to decrease the typical domain size. The scale bar to the right of each pattern shows the scaling of typical domain sizes predicted by equation (20), up to a constant factor (only the ratios between bars are meaningful since equation (20) suggests only the scaling of the typical size and leaves the prefactor unknown).
