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G-jitter Effects on Transport and Pattern FormationThe research performed under this grant has led to an number of new insights into two general categories of fluid flows in the presence of time-dependent acceleration, as outlined briefly below. These results have been widely communicated in the scientific community through seven presentations at international conferences (4 invited, 3 contributed), five published papers (4 journal articles and 1 conference proceeding), and images from the research featured on the cover of all 2003 editions of the research journal, Nonlinearity. The work performed under this proposal also contained a substantial educational component by contributed significantly to the scientific training of one postdoctoral associate, one Ph.D. student and five undergraduate researchers. One main area of focus in this research was convective flow with time-dependent acceleration. Convection is one class of behavior that can arise from g-jitter effects. Our research focused on studies of Rayleigh-Benard system, which is an important model for understanding thermal convection; studies of this problem in the presence of acceleration modulations provided insight into the nature of g-jitter induced flow and of the effects of modulation and noise on non-equilibrium pattern formation. Our experiments on vertically vibrated Rayleigh-Benard convection demonstrated the existence of two classes of pure flow patterns (synchronous & subharmonic) patterns) that had long been predicted by theory but never before observed experimentally. Detailed studies of ranges of parameters where both classes of patterns exist simultaneously led to the discovery of a new type of patterns (called superlattices) in systems driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium.
Document ID
20030058859
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other
Authors
Schatz, Michael F.
(Georgia Inst. of Tech. Atlanta, GA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG3-2006
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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