Pattern competition leads to chaos

Year: 1984

Authors: Ciliberto S., Gollub J.G.

Autors Affiliation: Department of Physics, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041;
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo E, Fermi 6, Florence, Italy.

Abstract: Pattern competition has been studied experimentally in the free surface modes of a circular fluid layer that is forced vertically. Interaction between nearly degenerate modes of different symmetry gives rise to periodic and chaotic fluctuations. The time-dependent mode amplitudes have been measured with digital imaging methods. Many of the observed phenomena can be explained by a low-dimensional coupled oscillator model that is related to the Navier-Stokes equations.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 52 (11)      Pages from: 922  to: 925

KeyWords: chaos
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.922

Citations: 131
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