The Spatio-Temporal Structure of Spiral-Defect Chaos
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We present a study of the recently discovered spatially-extended chaotic state known as spiral-defect chaos, which occurs in low-Prandtl-number, largeaspect-ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection. We employ the modulus squared of the space-time Fourier transform of time series of two-dimensional shadowgraph images to construct the structure factor S(~k, ω). This analysis is used to characterize the average spatial and temporal scales of the chaotic state. We find that the correlation length and time can be described by power-law dependences on the reduced Rayleigh number ǫ. These power laws have as yet no theoretical explanation. Typeset using REVTEX
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The Spatio-Temporal Structure of Spiral-Defect Chaos Stephen W. Morris Department of Physics and Erindale College, University of Toronto 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7 Eberhard Bodenschatz Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University Ithaca, New York, 14853. David S. Cannell and Guenter Ahlers Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Science Univer...
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