Flow-Induced Draping
Soft Condensed Matter
2013-08-26 v1 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
Crumpled paper or drapery patterns are everyday examples of how elastic sheets can respond to external forcing. In this Letter, we study experimentally a novel sort of forcing. We consider a circular flexible plate clamped at its center and subject to a uniform flow normal to its initial surface. As the flow velocity is gradually increased, the plate exhibits a rich variety of bending deformations: from a cylindrical taco-like shape, to isometric developable cones with azimuthal periodicity two or three, to eventually a rolled-up period-three cone. We show that this sequence of flow-induced deformations can be qualitatively predicted by a linear analysis based on the balance between elastic energy and pressure force work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.2097,
title = {Flow-Induced Draping},
author = {Lionel Schouveiler and Christophe Eloy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.2097},
year = {2013}
}