Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-10-17
Phys. Rev. E 79, 056204 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
9 pages, 11 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.79.056204
We report an experimental study of the intermittent dynamics of a gas flowing through a column of a non-Newtonian fluid. In a given range of the imposed constant flow rate, the system spontaneously alternates between two regimes: bubbles emitted at the bottom either rise independently one from the other or merge to create a winding flue which then connects the bottom air entrance to the free surface. The observations are reminiscent of the spontaneous changes in the degassing regime observed on volcanoes and suggest that, in the nature, such a phenomenon is likely to be governed by the non-Newtonian properties of the magma. We focus on the statistical distribution of the lifespans of the bubbling and flue regimes in the intermittent steady state. The bubbling regime exhibits a characteristic time whereas, interestingly, the flue lifespan displays a decaying power-law distribution. The associated exponent, which is significantly smaller than the value 1.5 often reported experimentally and predicted in some standard intermittency scenarios, depends on the fluid properties and can be interpreted as the ratio of two characteristic times of the system.
Bertin Eric
Divoux Thibaut
Géminard Jean-Christophe
Vidal Valérie
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