Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2749–2752 (1993)Water droplet avalanchesReceived 8 July 1993; published in the issue dated 25 October 1993 We analyze the statistics of water droplet avalanches in a continuously driven system. Distributions are obtained for avalanche size, lifetime, and time between successive avalanches, along with power spectra and return maps. For low flow rates and different wave viscosities, we observe a power-law scaling in the size and lifetime distributions of water droplet avalanches, indicating that a state with no characteristic time and length scales was reached. Higher flow rates resulted in an exponential behavior with characteristic scales. © 1993 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2749
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2749
PACS:
64.60.Ht, 05.40.+j, 05.70.Ln
See AlsoComment: Chu-heng Liu and H. M. Jaeger, Comment on "Water Droplet Avalanches", Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3497 (1995). Reply: Franco Nori, Britton Plourde, and Michael Bretz, Nori, Plourde, and Bretz Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3498 (1995). |
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