EDP Sciences Journals List
Issue Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics
Volume 165, December 2008
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Selected Problems
Page(s) 169 - 174
DOI 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00860-2
Published online 11 December 2008

Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 165, 169-174 (2008)
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00860-2

Superdiffusive wave front propagation in a chemical active flow

G. Fernández-García and V. Pérez-Muñuzuri

Group of Nonlinear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

guillermo@fmares.usc.es
vicente.perez@cesga.es

Abstract
We present experiments on the propagation of a wave front in a fluid forced by Faraday waves. The vertical periodical modulation of the acceleration induces flows in the system that modifies the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) chemical reaction dynamics. Phase waves spreading through standing waves with different symmetries results in superdiffusion. The anomalous diffusion is characterized in terms of a non-integer transport exponent which is compared with exponents resulting from tracer particles trajectories undergoing rapid, distant jumps called Lévy flights.



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