Steiner triangular drop dynamics

DOI10.1063/1.5113786MaRDI QIDQ5220492zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Elizabeth Wesson, P. H. Steen

Publication date 26 March 2020

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04710

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45)

Abstract: Steiner's circumellipse is the unique geometric regularization of any triangle to a circumscribed ellipse with the same centroid, a regularization that motivates our introduction of the Steiner triangle as a minimal model for liquid droplet dynamics. The Steiner drop is a deforming triangle with one side making sliding contact against a planar basal support. The center of mass of the triangle is governed by Newton's law. The resulting dynamical system lives in a four dimensional phase space and exhibits a rich one-parameter family of dynamics. Two invariant manifolds are identified with "bouncing" and "rocking" periodic motions; these intersect at the stable equilibrium and are surrounded by nested quasiperiodic motions. We study the inherently interesting dynamics and also find that this model, however minimal, can capture space-time symmetries of more realistic continuum drop models.

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