Counter- and co-directed swirling-type waves due to orbital excitations of a square-base tank

The analytic technique and numerical experiments are employed to show that the orbital elliptic translational ex citations of a square-base container can, depending on the ratio of the semiaxes of the elliptic orbit, lead, when the forcing frequency is close to the lowest natural sloshing frequency, to both the counter- and co-directed (relative to the orbital forcing direction) stable swirling-type steady-state resonant waves. For a non-zero damping in the hydrodynamic wavy system, the passage to circular orbits makes the stable counter-directed swirling impossible.

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Micro-Crack Damage in Elastic Solids by Two-Way Collinear Mixing Method

This study experimentally and numerically investigated the nonlinear behavior of the resonant bulk waves generated by the two-way collinear mixing method in 5052 aluminum alloy with micro-crack damage. When the primary longitudinal and transverse waves mixed in the micro-crack damage region, numerical and experimental results both verified the generation of resonant waves if the resonant condition ωL/ωT=2κ/(κ−1) was satisfied. Meanwhile, we found that the acoustic nonlinearity parameter (ANP) increases monotonously with increases in micro-crack density, the size of the micro-crack region, the frequency of resonant waves and friction coefficient of micro-crack surfaces. Furthermore, the micro-crack damage in a specimen generated by low-temperature fatigue experiment was employed. It was found that the micro-crack damage region can be located by scanning the specimen based on the two-way collinear mixing method.

Resonant Waves: Immersed in Geometry

This article introduces Resonant Waves, a work of interactive new media art that incorporates cymatic patterns into an immersive installation. The authors describe their research and design process in creating Resonant Waves, and they discuss technical details about the installation, highlighting innovative aspects of the project and contextualizing the project in terms of previous cymatics research and related artistic explorations of complex phenomena. Finally, the authors discuss audience reaction to different installations of the project and identify directions for future research in immersive cymatics.