A Numerical Investigation of the Fluid Mechanical Sewing Machine

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Date 17.02.2012
Hour 11:00
Speaker By Pierre-Thomas Brun, Univ. Paris-Sud
Location
MEB331
Category Conferences - Seminars
A thin thread of viscous fluid falling onto a moving belt generates a surprising variety of patterns depending on the belt speed, fall height, flow rate, and fluid properties.

To understand the rich nonlinear dynamics of this system, we have developed a new numerical code for simulating unsteady viscous threads, based on a discrete description of the geometry and a variational formulation for the viscous stresses.

The code successfully reproduces all major features of the experimental state diagram of Morris et al. (Phys. Rev. E 2008). Fourier analysis of the motion of the thread's contact point with the belt suggests a new classification of the observed patterns, and reveals that the system behaves as a nonlinear oscillator coupling the pendulum modes of the thread.

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  • General public
  • Free

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  • François Gallaire

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