Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2010-05-12
Physical Review Letters 105, 14 (2010) 144502
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.144502
We report experiments on gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid. The wave amplitudes are measured simultaneously in time and space using an optical method. The full space-time power spectrum shows that the wave energy is localized on several branches in the wave-vector-frequency space. The number of branches depend on the power injected within the waves. The measurement of the nonlinear dispersion relation is found to be well described by a law suggesting that the energy transfer mechanisms involved in wave turbulence are not only restricted to purely resonant interaction between nonlinear waves. The power-law scaling of the spatial spectrum and the probability distribution of the wave amplitudes at a given wave number are also measured and compared to the theoretical predictions.
Falcon Eric
Herbert Eric
Mordant Nicolas
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