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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 18, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2409617
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A thin thread of viscous fluid that falls on a moving belt acts like a fluid-mechanical sewing machine, exhibiting a rich variety of stitch patterns including meanders, translated coiling, slanted loops, braiding, figures-of-eight, W-patterns, side kicks, and period-doubled patterns. Using a numerical linear stability analysis, we determine the critical belt speed and oscillation frequency of the first bifurcation, at which a steady dragged viscous thread becomes unstable to transverse oscillations or meandering. The predictions of the stability analysis agree closely with the experimental measurements of Chiu-Webster and Lister [J. Fluid Mech. 569, 89 (2006)]. Moreover, the critical belt speed and onset frequency for meandering are nearly identical to the contact-point migration speed and angular frequency, respectively, of steady coiling of a viscous thread on a stationary surface, implying a remarkable degree of dynamical similarity between the two phenomena. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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