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Relaxation oscillations in a nearly inviscid Faraday system

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In the nearly inviscid regime parametrically driven surface gravity-capillary waves couple to a streaming flow driven in oscillatory viscous boundary layers. In an elliptical container of small eccentricity this coupling can lead to relaxation oscillations.

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  1. E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Plaza Cardenal Cisneros 3, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    María Higuera & José M. Vega

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Edgar Knobloch

  3. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Edgar Knobloch

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Higuera, M., Knobloch, E. & Vega, J. Relaxation oscillations in a nearly inviscid Faraday system. Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn. 18, 323–333 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-004-0144-2

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