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SYSS: Structure Formation and Self-Organization in non-equilibrium Systems

SYSS 3: Structure Formation and Self-Organization in non-equilibrium Systems - Poster

SYSS 3.19: Poster

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 16:00–18:00, P1

Delay of Disorder by Diluted Polymers — •Christian Wagner — Institut fuer Experimentalphysik, Universitaet des Saarlandes, D-66123 Saarbrücken

We study the effect of diluted flexible polymers on a disordered capillary wave state. The waves are generated at an interface of a dyed water sugar solution and a low viscous silicon oil. This allows for a quantitative measurement of the spatio-temporal Fourier spectrum. The primary pattern after the first bifurcation from the flat interface are squares. With increasing driving strength one observes a melting of the square pattern. It is replaced by a weak turbulent cascade. The addition of a small amount of polymers to the water layer does not affect the critical acceleration but shifts the disorder transition to higher driving strengths and the short wave length - high frequency fluctuations are suppressed.