Short-time Lyapunov exponent analysis and the transition to chaos in Taylor–Couette flow

DOI10.1017/S002211209100040XzbMath0738.76033MaRDI QIDQ3987807

John A. Vastano, Robert D. Moser

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

chaoschaotic attractorLyapunov exponent spectrumturbulent flowTaylor vorticesKaplan-Yorke conjectureaxially periodic Taylor-Couette flowKelvin-Helmholtz-type instabilityoutflow boundary jet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20)

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