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Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1372 - 1375 (1994)

Behavior of a Falling Paper
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Yoshihiro Tanabe and Kunihiko Kaneko
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan

Received 29 March 1994

Behavior of a falling paper in a two-dimensional fluid is investigated by introducing a simple phenomenological model including the lift and friction terms. Five falling patterns are discovered with the increase of friction coefficients: periodic rotation, chaotic rotation, chaotic fluttering, periodic fluttering, and simple perpendicular fall. Irregular motions of the fall are explained in terms of low-dimensional chaos.


©1994 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v73/p1372
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1372
PACS: 47.52.+j, 05.45.+b

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Comment: L. Mahadevan, H. Aref, and S. W. Jones, Comment on “Behavior of a Falling Paper”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1420 (1995)

Reply: Yoshihiro Tanabe and Kunihiko Kaneko, Tanabe and Kaneko Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1421 (1995)

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