Abstract
A water bell forms when a fluid jet impacts upon a target and separates into a two-dimensional sheet. Depending on the angle of separation from the target, the sheet can curve into a variety of different geometries. We show analytically that harmonic perturbations of water bells have linear wave solutions with geometry-dependent growth. We test the predictions of this model experimentally with a custom target system, and observe growth in agreement with the model below a critical forcing amplitude. Once the critical forcing amplitude is exceeded, a nonlinear transcritical bifurcation occurs; the response amplitude increases linearly with increasing forcing amplitude, albeit with a fundamentally different spatial form, and distinct nodes appear in the amplitude envelope.
| Original language | American English |
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| Article number | 042401 |
| Journal | Physical Review Fluids |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Apr 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors gratefully acknowledge the Naan Dan Jain company for providing the nozzles used to form the jets in these experiments. J.M.K. would like to thank the Fulbright-Israel postdoctoral fellowship for support. H.A. was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. DMR12-62047. J.F. acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation Grant No. 1523/15.
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