Nonlinear Physics Group: Papers on viscous rope coiling and the "fluid mechanical sewing machine"

Papers on viscous rope coiling
and the "fluid mechanical sewing machine"

Papers are listed with the most recent at the top.

The "fluid-mechanical sewing machine:" State frequency analysis and parameter space mapping, by Alex Cabaj, MSc report, unpublished, Sept 2017.
Height-dependent behaviour of meandering syrup, by Alex Cabaj, undergraduate report, unpublished, May 2016.
- Abstract in HTML
- pdf file.
Frequency structure of the nonlinear instability of a dragged viscous thread, by Robert L. Welch, Billy Szeto and Stephen W. Morris, Physical Review E, 85, 066209 (2012).
- Abstract in HTML
- Preprint version [pdf file].
- Preprint version from arXiv.
- Published version [subscription required].
The meandering instability of a viscous thread, by Stephen W. Morris, Jonathan H. P. Dawes, Neil M. Ribe, and John R. Lister, Physical Review E, 77, 066218 (2008).
- Abstract in HTML
- Preprint version [pdf file].
- Preprint version, from arXiv.
- Published version [subscription required].
- A movie of some of the states of the viscous thread [YouTube].
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Papers on viscous rope coilingand the "fluid mechanical sewing machine"