Chaotic dynamics of falling disks
dc.contributor.author | Field, S. B. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Klaus, M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, M. G. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Nori, Franco | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-01T17:37:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-06-01T17:37:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997-07-17 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Field, SB; Klaus, M; Moore, MG; Nori, F. (1997) "Chaotic dynamics of falling disks." Nature 388(6639): 252-254. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62793> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-0836 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62793 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study of the motion of flat bodies falling in a viscous medium dates back at least to Newton(1) and Maxwell(2), and is relevant to problems in meteorology(3), sedimentology(4), aerospace engineering(1) and chemical engineering(5-8). More recent theoretical studies(9-12) have emphasized the role played by deterministic chaos, although many experimental studies(1,5-8,13,14) were performed before the development of such ideas. Here we report experimental observations of the dynamics of disks falling in water/glycerol mixtures. We find four distinct types of motion, which are mapped out in a 'phase diagram'. The apparently complex behaviour can be reduced to a series of one-dimensional maps, which display a discontinuity at the crossover from periodic to chaotic motion. This discontinuity leads to an unusual intermittency transition(15), not previously observed experimentally, between the two behaviours. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
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dc.publisher | Macmillan Magazines Ltd. | en_US |
dc.source | Nature | en_US |
dc.title | Chaotic dynamics of falling disks | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | UNIV MICHIGAN,DEPT PHYS,ANN ARBOR,MI 48109 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62793/1/388252a0.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | Nature | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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