Ramachandran, R.; Nosonovsky, M. “Kirchhoff’s Analogy between the Kapitza Pendulum Stability and Buckling of a Wavy Beam under Tensile Loading.” Appl. Mech. 2023, 4, 248-253. https://doi.org/10.3390/applmech4010014 Our paper is about a non-trivial analogy between the stabilization of an inverted pendulum… Read More
There are many interesting and unusual effects related to the levitating droplet cluster. Most of these have been discovered very recently. Besides the regular (hexagonally arranged) cluster, there is a chain cluster including the branched cluster, small clusters, and the… Read More
A famous Japanese poem, the “Frog Haiku” composed by Bashô in 1686, says: 古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音 (“Old pond — a frog jumped in — sound of water”). Splashes of water are fascinating phenomena. An award winning photograph “Milk Drop Coronet”… Read More
Can you discover a new type of hydrodynamic instability? A UWM colleague from our department, Dr. Robert Balmer, did it almost 50 years ago. The phenomenon is the following: imagine that you have a horizontal pipe partially filled with a… Read More
My doctoral research (some 15 years ago) was about the Adams (or Adams-Martins) instabilities. We showed that this type of instabilities exists for multiple asperity contacts (modeled as a periodic set of contacts, see, M. Nosonovsky & G. Adams, “Vibration… Read More