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Scaling law governing the roughness of the swash edge line
E Bormashenko1, A Musin1, R Grynyov2
11] Department of Physics, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 40700, Israel [2] Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 40700, Israel.
Abstract:
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the shape of the swash edge line. Formation of the swash boundary is treated as an interfacial phenomenon. The simplest quantitative characteristic of the roughness of interface is its width w, defined as the root-mean-square fluctuation around the average position. For rough interfaces, the scaling with size of the system L is observed in the form w(L)∝ L(ζ). The concept of scaling supplies a simple framework for classifying interfaces. It is suggested that the fine structure of the swash boundary results from the combined action of the pinning force applied by random defects of the beach and elasticity of distorted swash boundary. The roughness of the swash front was studied at the Mediterranean Sea coast for uprush and backwash flows. Value of exponent ζ for receding swash front line was 0.64 ± 0.02, when in the case of advancing swash the value 0.73 ± 0.03 was calculated. The scaling exponent established for the receding phase of the swash is very close to the values of the exponent established for the roughness of the triple line for water droplets deposited on rough surfaces, crack propagation front in Plexiglas, and for the motion of a magnetic domain walls.
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