Matt Turner’s paper on synchronous sloshing accepted in J Fluids Str

Turner-WeidmanThe paper “Experiments on the synchronous sloshing in suspended containers described by shallow-water theory“, co-authored by Matt Turner and Patrick Weidman (University of Colorado, Boulder) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluids and Structures. In the paper, they compare experimental sloshing results in various suspended containers to shallow water analytic theory. In particular they consider the limit as the mass of the fluid in the vessel tends to zero. In this limit they find the frequency of the vessel motion `switches’ to progressively higher eigenmodes as the mass of the fluid is continuously lowered in such a way that the dry vessel frequency is reached in the zero fluid limit.  This research led to Matt’s visit to Colorado, supported a London Mathematical Society grant, to continue this collaboration.