On-off intermittency in chaotic dynamical systems refers to the situation where some dynamical variables exhibit two distinct states in their course of time evolution. One is the ‘‘off’’ state, where the variables remain approximately a constant, and the other is the ‘‘on’’ state, where the variables temporarily burst out of the off state. Previous work demonstrates that there appears to be a u...

The phase diagram of the coupled sine circle map lattice exhibits a variety of interesting phenomena including spreading regions with spatiotemporal intermittency, non-spreading regions with spatial intermittency, and coherent structures termed solitons. A cellular automaton mapping of the coupled map lattice maps the spreading to non-spreading transition to a transition from a probabilistic to...

We suggest an approach to probing intermittency corrections to the Kolmogorov law in turbulent flows based on the autoregressive moving-average modeling of turbulent time series. We introduce an index Υ that measures the distance from a Kolmogorov-Obukhov model in the autoregressive moving-average model space. Applying our analysis to particle image velocimetry and laser Doppler velocimetry mea...

Recently, by analyzing the measurement data of Nikuradze [NACA Tech. Memo No. 1292 (1950)], it has been proposed [N. Goldenfeld, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044503 (2006)] that the friction factor, f , of rough-pipe flow obeys a scaling law in the turbulent regime. Here, we provide a phenomenological scaling argument to explain this law and demonstrate how intermittency modifies the scaling form, ther...

Erraticity analysis of multiparticle production data is introduced as a way of extracting the maximum amount of information on self-similar fluctuations. It is presented as the next logical step to take beyond the intermittency analysis. An erraticity spectrum e(α) can be determined analogous to the multifractal spectrum f(α). An analytical example is presented to elucidate the method of analys...

The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the influence of intermittency in visual information processes on intermittency in the control continuous force production. Adult human participants were required to maintain force at, and minimize variability around, a force target over an extended duration (15 s), while the intermittency of on-line visual feedback presentation was varied...

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the characteristics of local dissipation length-scale field  in turbulent (round and square) jets with various jet-exit Reynolds numbers. Results reveal that the probability density function (PDF) of , denoted by Q(), in the central fully-turbulent region, is insensitive to initial flow conditions and the departure from anisotropy. Excellen...

We show that intermittency of noiselike emission, after propagation through a scattering medium, affects the distribution of noise in the observed correlation function. Intermittency also affects correlation of noise among channels of the spectrum, but leaves the average spectrum, average correlation function, and distribution of noise among channels of the spectrum unchanged. Pulsars are examp...