Matt Turner’s paper on sloshing in hyperbolic containers accepted to Physical Review Fluids

schematic_hyperbola2-eps-converted-toThe paper “Coupled sloshing in hyperbolic containers suspended as a bifilar pendulum“, co-authored by Matt Turner and Patrick Weidman (University of Colorado, Boulder) has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper investigates the coupled dynamics between a sloshing fluid and its container, which is suspended as a bifilar pendulum. The two containers examined in this paper were the quasi-two-dimensional hyperbolic container, and the three-dimensional hyperboloid container. Results of the initial value problem achievable in laboratory experiments, i.e. released from a non-zero displacement with a quiescent fluid, shows that both synchronous and asynchronous sloshing motions are achievable depending upon the length of the pendulum. This research was funded by an LMS working in pairs travel grant.