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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 6(111), 2013

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.064301

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Flow-Induced Draping

Journal article published in 2013 by Lionel Schouveiler, Christophe Eloy ORCID
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Abstract

Crumpled paper or drapery patterns are everyday examples of how elastic sheets can respond to external forcing. In this Letter, we study experimentally a novel sort of forcing. We consider a circular flexible plate clamped at its center and subject to a uniform flow normal to its initial surface. As the flow velocity is gradually increased, the plate exhibits a rich variety of bending deformations: from a cylindrical taco-like shape, to isometric developable cones with azimuthal periodicity two or three, to eventually a rolled-up period-three cone. We show that this sequence of flow-induced deformations can be qualitatively predicted by a linear analysis based on the balance between elastic energy and pressure force work.