title: Particles floating on a moving fluid: a dynamically comprehensible physical fractal.
abstract: Measurements of the local dynamics on the surface of a fluid undergoing complicated motion allow prediction of the measured fractal dimension of an aggregate of passive, floating tracers. This realization of a strange attractor in physical space is a rare instance where there is a firm quantitative connection between the dimension of an experimentally observed fractal spatial pattern and the process producing it.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sommerer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ott