Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2006-12-29
Physical Review Letters 98 (11/04/2007) 154501
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
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Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.154501
We report the observation of intermittency in gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the surface of mercury. We measure the temporal fluctuations of surface wave amplitude at a given location. We show that the shape of the probability density function of the local slope increments of the surface waves strongly changes across the time scales. The related structure functions and the flatness are found to be power laws of the time scale on more than one decade. The exponents of these power laws increase nonlinearly with the order of the structure function. All these observations show the intermittent nature of the increments of the local slope in wave turbulence. We discuss the possible origin of this intermittency.
Falcon Eric
Fauve Stéphan
Laroche Claude
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