title: Soliton pair interaction law in parametrically driven Newtonian fluid.
abstract: An experimental and theoretical study of the motion and interaction of the localized excitations in a vertically driven small rectangular water container is reported. Close to the Faraday instability, the parametrically driven damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation models this system. This model allows one to characterize the pair interaction law between localized excitations. Experimentally we have a good agreement with the pair interaction law.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile. marcel@dfi.uchile.cl
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Clerc
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Coulibaly
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mujica
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Navarro
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sauma