Fractal Simulator and Ceramics Technology for New Tesla’s Fountain

Abstract

In this study, we present new Tesla’s Fountain model in ceramics technology. It is reconstructed from basic 3D model. The model is designed based on Tesla’s original US patent no. 1,113,716, granted on October, 13 (1914). The complete model includes the engine (rotating water pump), colored lights and fluids. This part of the paper is based on research within the project entitled “Computer Simulation and Modeling of the Original Patents of Nikola Tesla” and approved by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. The first Tesla's patent that was under our attention in this project was Tesla’s Fountain that is presented in this paper. It is well known that first Tesla’s experiments on Fountain have been realized in materials like bronze-metal. Nevertheless, we used new approach and applied ceramics materials technologies in combination of casting and sintering. We used our original fractal simulator to observe and simulate micro particles movements in Fountain model Finally, we used smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) as a method of computation and simulating the dynamics of continuum media, like the flow of fluids. The method was developed by Gingold, Monaghan and Lucy in 1977, initially for astrophysical problems. It is also used in astrophysics, ballistics, volcano logy, and oceanography but we find new appliance in our Fountain model. We combine a mesh-free Lagrange method (coordinates move with the fluid) to easily adjust resolution of the simulation with respect to all variables (like the density).