Scaling behavior in Spiral Defect Chaos
Fluid Dynamics
2007-05-23 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We find the evolution toward power-law scaling in the distribution of roll lengths and nearest-neighbor distributions in a weakly turbulent regime of Rayleigh-Benard convection, known as spiral defect chaos. The state has a bounded domain of wave vectors in Fourier space attributed to the flow being highly confined to two dimensions. Our results indicates the existence of power-law scaling in the unconstrained horizontal dimension. The techniques described are broadly applicable to other pattern forming systems as well.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0703113,
title = {Scaling behavior in Spiral Defect Chaos},
author = {Kapilanjan Krishan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0703113},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures