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 The validity of an existing perturbation analysis is found to be limited to
- Received 29 August 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.036305
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