Timeline for Is there a mathematical way to describe how a flame flickers?
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| Oct 3, 2011 at 16:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/120891610383908864 | ||
| Oct 2, 2011 at 15:13 | answer | added | eudoxos | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 15:04 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | You could model the whole process at ever increasing physical fidelity until you got the effect you wanted, but some how I don't think that is what you're looking for. I recall reading somewhere that the behavior of the smoke column goes from deterministic and simple to chaotic as you turn up the total heat under it, so the flame may exhibit a similar transitions. Possibly you can get something "good enough" by tapping into the output of some other chaotic system (damped over-driven oscillator or whatever). | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 23:28 | history | asked | Kyle Hotchkiss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |