on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Sophia T. Merrifield, Douglas H. Kelley, and Nicholas T. Ouellette

By studying the shape dynamics of three-particle clusters, we investigate the statistical geometry of a spatiotemporally chaotic experimental quasi-two-dimensional flow. We show that when shape and size are appropriately decoupled, these Lagrangian triangles assume statistically stationary shape dis...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 254501] Published Mon Jun 21, 2010