Particles Floating on a Moving Fluid: A Dynamically Comprehensible Physical Fractal
- 15 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 259 (5093) , 335-339
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.259.5093.335
Abstract
Measurements of the local dynamics on the surface of a fluid undergoing complicated motion allow prediction of the measured fractal dimension of an aggregate of passive, floating tracers. This realization of a strange attractor in physical space is a rare instance where there is a firm quantitative connection between the dimension of an experimentally observed fractal spatial pattern and the process producing it.Keywords
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