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Swirling against the forcing: Evidence of stable counterdirected sloshing waves in orbital-shaken reservoirs

Abstract

We investigate the response of the free liquid surface in a partially filled circular cylindrical container undergoing a planar elliptic and time-periodic orbit while maintaining fixed its orientation. For small forcing amplitudes and deep liquid layers, we quantify the effect of the orbit's aspect ratio on the surface dynamics in the vicinity of the fluid system's lowest natural frequency omega(0). We provide experimental evidence of the existence of a frequency range where stable swirling can be either co- or counterdirected with respect to the container's direction of motion. Our findings are then rationalized by an inviscid weakly nonlinear model, amended with heuristic damping.

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