Sedimentation Dynamics of Bodies with Two Planes of Symmetry
arXiv:2403.10643 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.014002
Abstract
We show that bodies with two planes of symmetry can display a range of behaviors even without inertia. Any such body supports a conserved quantity in its dynamics, and is either a settler, a drifter or a flutterer, depending only on its shape. At large time, settlers and drifters, respectively, fall vertically and obliquely, while flutterers rotate forever while executing intricate patterns. The dynamics of flutterers decouples into a periodic and a Floquet part with different timescales, giving periodicity or quasiperiodicity. We design a set of bodies and use the boundary integral method to show that settlers, drifters, and flutterers, all lie in this set.
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