Chaotic advection in three-dimensional stationary vortex-breakdown bubbles: šil'nikov's chaos and the devil's staircase

DOI10.1017/S0022112001005286zbMath1003.76020MaRDI QIDQ2755422

Yiannis Ventikos, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Tahirih C. Lackey

Publication date: 9 April 2002

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

zbMATH Keywords

three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equationsPoincaré mapssensitive dependence on initial conditionscylindrical containerflow topologyhyperbolic pointsSmale horseshoesfractal curverotating bottomsaddle focidevil's staircase distributionnon-diffusive passive particlesperturbed volume-preserving three-dimensional dynamical systemShil'nikov's chaossteady three-dimensional vortex breakdown bubbles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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