I would like to say now: I thought I'd give understanding vortex's a whirl. Boy did my head spin :P (thank you thank you! I'll be here all week! try the chicken!)
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Eric Smith <desm...@santafe.edu> wrote: > I would be surprised if this were it, Steve. > > Benard cells are a packing phenomenon, so they rely on the cooperative > effect through the lattice to form. I assume this Saturn jet stream > basically has a latitudinal instability, and the interference effect from > having it recycle either adjusts the wavelength, or adjusts the position of > the circumference, so that it finds a consistent re-entrant pattern. > > A thing that would be very cool is if, as the northern-hemisphere summer > goes on, enough more heat enters that part of the atmosphere that it drives > the stream differently, the natural wavelength of the instability changes, > and the belt goes into a new polygon like a pentagon, perhaps with a period > of chaos or something else complicated in the transition. > > But, I have never done a real fluid-dynamics calculation, so this is of > course completely idle on my part. > > Eric > > > On Dec 15, 2013, at 12:51 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > wrote: > >> OK, so why hexagon? >> http://goo.gl/tAE9Od >> > > What about good old-fashioned Bénard hexagonal cells from convection? > > eg: http://goo.gl/yQL2La > > <benard_hexagon.png> <http://goo.gl/yQL2La> > > --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... > stephen.gue...@redfish.com > 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 > office: (505) 995-0206 tollfree: (888) 414-3855 > mobile: (505) 577-5828 fax: (505) 819-5952 > tw: @redfishgroup skype: redfishgroup gvoice: (505) 216-6226 > redfish.com | simtable.com > > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net>wrote: > >> OK, so why hexagon? >> http://goo.gl/tAE9Od >> >> Isn't this impossible as a weather artifact? More likely a physical >> artifact on the surface? >> >> -- Owen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wedtech mailing list >> wedt...@redfish.com >> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/wedtech_redfish.com >> >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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