DRIFTING PULSES OF TRAVELING-WAVE CONVECTION

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KOLODNER, P
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[1] AT and T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1165
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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I describe experiments on "pulses" of convective traveling waves in an ethanol/water mixture contained in an extremely uniform annular cell. In contrast to previous observations, I find that pulses drift continuously, with no long-term change in velocity. The drift velocity vanishes at onset, increases with the distance above onset, and agrees with the results of numerical integrations of the Navier-Stokes equations.
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