title: Effect of a random noise on scaling laws of finite Prandtl number rotating convection near threshold.
abstract: A generalized Swift-Hohenberg model including a weak random forcing, viewed as mimicking the intrinsic source of noise due to boundary defects, is used to reproduce the experimentally observed power-law variation of the correlation length of rotating convection patterns as a function of the stress parameter near threshold, and to demonstrate the sensitivity of the exponent to the amplitude of the superimposed random noise. The scaling properties of rotating convection near threshold are thus conjectured to be nonuniversal.
authors.affiliation: CNRS, UMR 6529, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Boite Postale 4229, 06304, Nice Cedex 4, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Laveder
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Passot
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ponty
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Sulem