Completely inelastic ball

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 May;79(5 Pt 2):055201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.055201. Epub 2009 May 18.

Abstract

This Rapid Communication presents an analytical study of the bouncing of a completely inelastic ball on a vertically vibrated plate. The interplay of saddle-node and period-doubling bifurcations leads to an intricate structure of the bifurcation diagram with uncommon properties, such as an infinity of bifurcation cascades in a finite range of the control parameter Gamma. A pseudochaotic behavior, consisting in arbitrarily long and complex periodic sequences, is observed through this generic system.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't