The onset of stochastic pulsations at the early nonlinear stage of the development of perturbations in the jet of an incompressible fluid propagating along a wall (Q1315567)

The Korteweg-de Vries equation, which describes the nonlinear propagation of perturbations in a jet of incompressible fluid emanating from a slit in a planar screen and propagating along a wall is considered. The simplest problem in the theory of dynamical systems in the Hamiltonian formulation arises. The existence of a homoclinic structure in the neighbourhood of the separatrices is deduced from an analysis of a Poincaré transformation. Among the trajectories belonging to the homoclinic structure in the secant plane, there are some with properties which are formulated in terms of determinate chaos. A fundamentally important conclusion concerning the dual role of solitons at the nonlinear stage of the wave motion of the fluid follows: on the one hand, they serve as the nuclei of large-scale coherent structures and, on the other hand, they are responsible for the onset of stochastic pulsations.