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Observation of thermal equilibrium in capillary wave turbulenc

Fluid Dynamics 2017-04-12 v1 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We consider capillary wave turbulence at scales larger than the forcing one. At such scales, our measurements show that the surface waves dynamics is the one of a thermal equilibrium state in which the effective temperature is related to the injected power. We characterize this evolution with a scaling law and report the statistical properties of the large-scale surface elevation depending on this effective temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08109,
  title  = {Observation of thermal equilibrium in capillary wave turbulenc},
  author = {G. Michel and F. Pétrélis and S. Fauve},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08109},
  year   = {2017}
}