TY - JOUR
T1 - Anomalous roughness of turbulent interfaces with system size dependent local roughness exponent
AU - Balankin, Alexander S.
AU - Matamoros, Daniel Morales
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Mexican Government under the CONACyT Grant No. 44722 and by the Mexican Petroleum Institute under Chicontepec research program. The authors thank Miguel A. Rodríguz and Juan M. López for useful discussions.
PY - 2005/5/16
Y1 - 2005/5/16
N2 - In a system far from equilibrium the system size can play the role of control parameter that governs the spatiotemporal dynamics of the system. Accordingly, the kinetic roughness of interfaces in systems far from equilibrium may depend on the system size. To get an insight into this problem, we performed a detailed study of rough interfaces formed in paper combustion experiments. Using paper sheets of different width λ, we found that the turbulent flame fronts display anomalous multi-scaling characterized by non-universal global roughness exponent α and by the system size dependent spectrum of local roughness exponents, ζq(λ) = ζ1(1)q-ωλφ<α, whereas the burning fronts possess conventional multi-affine scaling characterized by the universal spectrum of roughness exponent ζq = 0.93q-0.15. The structure factor of turbulent flame fronts also exhibits unconventional scaling dependence on λ. These results are expected to apply to a broad range of far from equilibrium systems when the kinetic energy fluctuations exceed a certain critical value.
AB - In a system far from equilibrium the system size can play the role of control parameter that governs the spatiotemporal dynamics of the system. Accordingly, the kinetic roughness of interfaces in systems far from equilibrium may depend on the system size. To get an insight into this problem, we performed a detailed study of rough interfaces formed in paper combustion experiments. Using paper sheets of different width λ, we found that the turbulent flame fronts display anomalous multi-scaling characterized by non-universal global roughness exponent α and by the system size dependent spectrum of local roughness exponents, ζq(λ) = ζ1(1)q-ωλφ<α, whereas the burning fronts possess conventional multi-affine scaling characterized by the universal spectrum of roughness exponent ζq = 0.93q-0.15. The structure factor of turbulent flame fronts also exhibits unconventional scaling dependence on λ. These results are expected to apply to a broad range of far from equilibrium systems when the kinetic energy fluctuations exceed a certain critical value.
KW - Far from equilibrium systems
KW - Roughness
KW - Scaling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.02.064
DO - 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.02.064
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:17144375640
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 339
SP - 23
EP - 32
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
IS - 1-2
ER -