lunes, 20 de abril de 2015

Soliton

Soliton is a solitary self-reinforcing pulse that maintains its shape while it goes through the medium at a constant velocity. Solitons are caused by cancelling disperse effect in the medium.

The soliton phenomenon was first described in 1834 by John Russell (1808–1882) who observed a solitary wave in the Union Canal in Scotland. He reproduced the phenomenon in a wave tank.



Solitons have been used in fiber optics and experimented in communication media.


Soliton



Vortex Ring 


A disperse effect is a property of systems where the speed of the wave vary depending on the frequency 1
A ring Vortex is a donut shaped vortex in a fluid; that is, a region where the fluid mostly spins around an imaginary axis line that forms a closed loop. 2

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  1. The soliton model in neuroscience is a recently developed model that attempts to explain how signals are conducted within neurons based on a thermodynamic theory of nerve pulse propagation. It is great how waves can explain the most complex things!

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