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Experimental evidence of random shock-wave intermittency

Fluid Dynamics 2023-09-29 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We report the experimental observation of intermittency in a regime dominated by random shock waves on the surface of a fluid. We achieved such a nondispersive surface-wave field using a magnetic fluid subjected to a high external magnetic field. We found that the small-scale intermittency of the wave-amplitude fluctuations is due to shock waves, leading to much more intense intermittency than previously reported in three-dimensional hydrodynamics turbulence or in wave turbulence. The statistical properties of intermittency are found to be in good agreement with the predictions of a Burgerslike intermittency model. Such experimental evidence of random shock-wave intermittency could lead to applications in various fields.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16222,
  title  = {Experimental evidence of random shock-wave intermittency},
  author = {Guillaume Ricard and Eric Falcon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16222},
  year   = {2023}
}
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