A Numerical Investigation of the Fluid Mechanical Sewing Machine
Event details
| Date | 17.02.2012 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | Pierre-Thomas Brun, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert/Lab. FAST, UPMC, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS |
| Location |
MEB331
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| 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.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- François Gallaire