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Amplitude measurements of Faraday waves

A. Wernet, C. Wagner, D. Papathanassiou, H. W. Mueller, K. Knorr

nlin.PSarXiv:nlin/0008036

Abstract

A light reflection technique is used to measure quantitatively the surface elevation of Faraday waves. The performed measurements cover a wide parameter range of driving frequencies and sample viscosities. In the capillary wave regime the bifurcation diagrams exhibit a frequency independent scaling proportional to the wavelength. We also provide numerical simulations of the full Navier-Stokes equations, which are in quantitative agreement up to supercritical drive amplitudes of 20%. The validity of an existing perturbation analysis is found to be limited to 2.5% overcriticaly.

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