TRANSITION TO CHAOS BY SPATIOTEMPORAL INTERMITTENCY IN DIRECTIONAL VISCOUS FINGERING

Authors
MICHALLAND S RABAUD M COUDER Y
Citation
S. Michalland et al., TRANSITION TO CHAOS BY SPATIOTEMPORAL INTERMITTENCY IN DIRECTIONAL VISCOUS FINGERING, Europhysics letters, 22(1), 1993, pp. 17-22
Citations number
17
Journal title
Europhysics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
02955075
Volume
22
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
17 - 22
Database
ISI
SICI code
0295-5075(1993)22:1<17:TTCBSI>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We present a statistical description of the transition to chaos in a d irectional viscous fingering experiment. In this extended one-dimensio nal system the order-disorder transition follows a seenario of spatio- temporal intermittency and appears as a second-order transition. The c ritical exponents of the transition are determined and compared with o ther systems exhibiting a similar behaviour. The values of these expon ents are discussed.