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View SchemaDynamics and Selection of Giant Spirals in Rayleigh-Benard Convection
| Authors | Brendan B. Plapp, David A. Egolf, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Werner Pesch |
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| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9808003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9808003 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5334 |
Abstract
For Rayleigh-Benard convection of a fluid with Prandtl number \sigma \approx 1, we report experimental and theoretical results on a pattern selection mechanism for cell-filling, giant, rotating spirals. We show that the pattern selection in a certain limit can be explained quantitatively by a phase-diffusion mechanism. This mechanism for pattern selection is very different from that for spirals in excitable media.
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