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Measurements of Waves in a Wind-wave Tank Under Steady and Time-varying Wind Forcing
Published on: February 13, 2018
Chemical-wave dynamics in a vertically oscillating fluid layer
G Fernández-García1, D I Roncaglia, V Pérez-Villar
1Group of Nonlinear Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Abstract:
Classical Faraday experiments were conducted on the oscillatory chemical Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. The vertical periodic modulation of the acceleration induces flows in the system that change the BZ dynamics, and thus the patterns exhibited. The resulting reaction-diffusion-advection system exhibits four different types of pattern for increasing stirring amplitude: deformed targets and spiral waves, filamentary patterns arranged in large-scale vortices, advection phase waves, and finally front annihilation where the medium becomes homogeneous. A wave period analysis of the forced system has been carried out. Contrary to what is expected, i.e., a continuous increase of the wave period with increasing forcing, the period changes dramatically at the boundaries between pattern domains.
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