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Phase relaxation of Faraday surface waves

A. V. Kityk, C. Wagner, K. Knorr, H. W. Mueller

nlin.PSarXiv:nlin/0109012

Abstract

Surface waves on a liquid air interface excited by a vertical vibration of a fluid layer (Faraday waves) are employed to investigate the phase relaxation of ideally ordered patterns. By means of a combined frequency-amplitude modulation of the excitation signal a periodic expansion and dilatation of a square wave pattern is generated, the dynamics of which is well described by a Debye relaxator. By comparison with the results of a linear theory it is shown that this practice allows a precise measurement of the phase diffusion constant.

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