Kapilanjan Krishna
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 70 Issue 4 April 2008 pp 669-678 Research Articles
Importance of packing in spiral defect chaos
We develop two measures to characterize the geometry of patterns exhibited by the state of spiral defect chaos, a weakly turbulent regime of Rayleigh-Bénard convection. These describe the packing of contiguous stripes within the pattern by quantifying their length and nearest-neighbor distributions. The distributions evolve towards unique distribution with increasing Rayleigh number that suggests power-law scaling for the dynamics in the limit of infinite system size. The techniques are generally applicable to patterns that are reducible to a binary representation.
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