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Sloshing in coffee as a pumped pendulum

Classical Physics 2021-06-23 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We present a study of the dynamics of a cup of coffee while walking with it in terms of a lumped model. The model considered is a planar (nonlinear) pendulum with parametric and direct excitation. The position of the pivot is changed with time, which leads to parametric excitation in the vertical direction; and parametric/direct excitation in the horizontal one. For the former case, the Method of Averaging is used to determine the regions of stability for two steady-state solutions. In the vertical/horizontal excitation, we determined the resonances of the system using the Method of Multiple Scales and show the results computed with \emph{exact} numerical integration.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2106.11435,
  title  = {Sloshing in coffee as a pumped pendulum},
  author = {Nicolás Guarín-Zapata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11435},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages, 7 figures

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