The "fluid-mechanical sewing machine:" State frequency analysis and parameter space mapping

The "fluid-mechanical sewing machine:"
State frequency analysis
and parameter space mapping

MSc report, unpublished, Sept. 2017.

Alex Cabaj

Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7.

When viscous fluid falls from a nozzle onto a moving horizontal belt, it forms a variety of patterns, which depend on the nozzle height and belt speed. This system is called the ``fluid-mechanical sewing machine," and although it has been extensively studied, the frequency structures of many states have yet to be examined, and certain regions of parameter space remain unmapped. This report details the experimentally-derived frequency structures of previously unexamined states, and a few as-of-yet undocumented states are examined. Disordered states are also briefly examined, and states from a wide region of parameter space are sampled and classified.

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