An Investigation of the Chaotic Dripping Faucet
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The dripping faucet experiment has been performed multiple times since it was proposed by Robert Shaw in 1984 as a system exhibiting chaos. It continues to serve as a relatively simple chaotic system for numerical and experimental analysis. This project seeked to replicate past experiments and find the route to chaos in droplet formation. It was desired to collect enough data to construct a bifurcation diagram in order to predict system behavior at various flow rates. Additionally, simulations were performed by modeling the water droplet as a harmonic oscillator. Although there were no novel findings in this project, there were many significant experimental improvements that can aid others trying to perform the experiment.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011