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lunedì 22 gennaio 2024
# gst: the hypothesis of a new type of rogue waves.
lunedì 19 luglio 2021
# gst: mitigate | eliminate side lobes from superoscillatory waves (to manipulate nanoparticles)
venerdì 29 novembre 2024
# gst: fluid stretching and compression to control (chemical) waves
venerdì 25 giugno 2021
# gst: apropos of transitions, tsunami waves generated by granular collapses.
lunedì 25 aprile 2016
# s-gst: subtle, interacting internal waves
<< This photograph, taken from the International Space Station (ISS), shows the north coast of Trinidad and a series of subtle, interacting arcs in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. These are known as “internal waves,” the surface manifestation of slow waves that move tens of meters beneath the sea surface. Internal waves produce enough of an effect on the sea surface to be seen from space, but only where they are enhanced due to reflection of sunlight, or sunglint, back towards the International Space Station. The image shows at least three sets of internal waves interacting. The most prominent set (image top left) shows a packet of several waves moving from the northwest due to the tidal flow towards the north coast of Trinidad. Two less prominent, younger sets can be seen further out to sea. A very broad set enters the view from the north and northeast, and interacts at image top center with the first set. All the internal waves are probably caused by the shelf break near Tobago (outside the image to top right). The shelf break is the step between shallow seas (around continents and islands) and the deep ocean. It is the line at which tides usually start to generate internal waves. >>
NASA Earth Observatory. Internal Waves off Northern Trinidad. February 4, 2013
http://m.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80337
image: download large image (391 KB, JPEG, 1440x960)
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/80000/80337/ISS034-E-032377_lrg.jpg
mercoledì 10 aprile 2024
# gst: exploring the on-demand dynamical generation of a plethora of dispersive shock waves arising in attractive one-dimensional droplet-bearing environment.
venerdì 17 settembre 2021
# gst: apropos of transitions: effects of random waves interacting with a coherent structure
mercoledì 14 marzo 2018
# gst: chemical waves exhibit fascinating patterns
<< Waves are known in many very different forms; as water waves, light waves or sound waves. But here we are dealing with something quite different - chemical waves >>
<< Typically, one imagines a chemical reaction like this: from specific initial reactants one obtains specific final products. But it does not need to be as simple as that. Self-sustaining oscillations may occur, i.e. periodic changes between two different states >>
<< On a polycrystalline surface, there are then different regions in which the cyclical process occurs at different frequencies. It is precisely this effect that creates those fascinating wave patterns. When a chemical wave moves across the surface and passes from the edge of one grain of crystal to another, it speeds up or slows down, similar to light passing from the air to water. This changes the complex spiral wave structures according to the particular orientation of the grain surface >>
Vienna University of Technology. Chemical waves guide to catalysts of the future. Feb 20, 2018.
https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-chemical-catalysts-future.html
Yuri Suchorski, Martin Datler, et al. Visualizing catalyst heterogeneity by a multifrequential oscillating reaction. Nature Communication. 2018; 9 (600). doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03007-3. Feb 9, 2018.
sabato 30 luglio 2016
# s-gst: vortex knots in wave systems
<< Waves surround us all the time: sound waves in the noise around us, light waves enabling us to see, and according to quantum mechanics, all matter has a wave nature. Most of these waves, however, do not resemble the regular train of waves at the shore of the ocean—the pattern is much more chaotic. Most significantly, the whirls and eddies form lines in space called vortices. Along these lines, the wave intensity is zero, and natural wave fields - light, sound and quantum matter - are filled with a dense tangle of these null filaments >>
Knots in chaotic waves. July 29, 2016.
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-07-chaotic.html
Alexander J. Taylor & Mark R. Dennis. Vortex knots in tangled quantum eigenfunctions. Nature Communications. Published 29 Jul 2016 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12346 OPEN
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160729/ncomms12346/full/ncomms12346.html
sabato 1 dicembre 2018
# geo: strange waves from Mayotte
<< On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed vast oceans, humming across Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away. >>
<< Yet many features of the waves are remarkably weird-from their surprisingly monotone, low-frequency “ring” to their global spread. >>
Maya Wei-Haas. Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why. Nov28, 2018.
mercoledì 13 maggio 2020
# gst: the generation of solitary waves to move and direct a pulse-drive bot
mercoledì 21 dicembre 2022
# gst: apropos of transitions, rich behaviors from chimeras or solitary states to traveling waves
giovedì 9 gennaio 2020
# gst: apropos of 'large deviations', the instanton, to trace rogue waves
martedì 30 luglio 2024
# gst: collapse of a toroidal bubble inducing shock waves
lunedì 11 marzo 2024
# gst: self-trapped nonlinear waves with multiple phase singularities.
sabato 25 giugno 2022
# astro: eight new echoing black hole binaries (in Milky Way)
giovedì 10 ottobre 2024
# gst: apropos of breaking mechanisms, crack of a floating particle raft caused by waves.
mercoledì 27 luglio 2016
# rmx-s-phys: wave's complex exceptional points
<< When waves are able to absorb or release energy, so-called "exceptional points" occur, around which the waves show quite peculiar behaviour >>
<< Exceptional points occur, when the shape and the absorption of a system can be tuned in such a way that two different waves can meet at one specific complex frequency >>
<< At this exceptional point the waves not only share the same frequency and absorption rate, but also their spatial structure is the same. One may thus really interpret this as two wave states merging into a single one at the exceptional point. >>
The exception and its rules. 'Exceptional points' give rise to counterintuitive physical effects. Vienna University of Technology. 27 Jul 2016.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/vuot-tea072016.php
Jorg Doppler, Alexei A. Mailybaev, et al. Dynamically encircling an exceptional point for asymmetric mode switching. Nature (2016) doi:10.1038/nature18605. Published online 25 July 2016
mercoledì 6 luglio 2022
# gst: when turbulence is driven by a strongly compressive guide
sabato 5 agosto 2017
# s-phys: nanoquakes: driving them by phononic crystals
<< the extreme frequency sound waves - also known as surface acoustic waves [SAW] or 'nanoquakes' , as they run across the surface of a solid material in a similar manner to earthquake tremors on land >>
<< Although surface acoustic waves form a key component of a host of technologies, they have proved extremely difficult to control with any degree of accuracy >>
[AA] << have developed a new type of structure, known as a ' phononic crystal,' which when patterned into a device, can be used to steer and guide the nanoquakes >>
Riding the wave: Pioneering research tames nanoquakes. Aug 2, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-08-nanoquakes.html
<< Phononic crystals can control the propagation of SAW, analogous to photonic crystals, enabling components such as waveguides and cavities >>
B. J. Ash, S. R. Worsfold, et al. A highly attenuating and frequency tailorable annular hole phononic crystal for surface acoustic waves. Nature Communications 8, Article number: 174 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00278-0