The fascinating and anomalous behavior of a chain that instead of falling straight down under gravity, first rises and then falls, acquiring a steady shape in space that resembles a fountain’s spray, has recently attracted both popular and academic interest. The paper presents a complete mathematical solution of this problem, whose distinctive feature is the introduction of a number of dissipative shocks that can be resolved exactly.
Dissipative shocks in a chain fountain
VIRGA, EPIFANIO GUIDO GIOVANNI
2014-01-01
Abstract
The fascinating and anomalous behavior of a chain that instead of falling straight down under gravity, first rises and then falls, acquiring a steady shape in space that resembles a fountain’s spray, has recently attracted both popular and academic interest. The paper presents a complete mathematical solution of this problem, whose distinctive feature is the introduction of a number of dissipative shocks that can be resolved exactly.File in questo prodotto:
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