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Spatiotemporal intermittency: although not to be found in a standard English dictionary, this expression can easily be understood at an “ordinary language” level and indeed appears in the physics literature with this general, and hence vague, meaning. However, spatiotemporal intermittency has recently been used to define dynamical regimes possessing a precise set of properties and involving specific physics. In the following, these two levels of description are analyzed successively and the theoretical implications of the latter are discussed.
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Chaté, H., Manneville, P. (1995). Spatiotemporal Intermittency. In: Tabeling, P., Cardoso, O. (eds) Turbulence. NATO ASI Series, vol 341. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2586-8_19
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