https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00860-2
Superdiffusive wave front propagation in a chemical active flow
Group of Nonlinear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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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.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2008
