Chaotic mixing and transport in a meandering jet flow

DOI10.1063/1.2229263MaRDI QIDQ3531641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. V. Budyansky, Michael Yu. Uleysky, George M. Zaslavsky, S. V. Prants

Publication date 3 November 2008

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0607016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

Abstract: Mixing and transport of passive particles are studied in a simple kinematic model of a meandering jet flow motivated by the problem of lateral mixing and transport in the Gulf Stream. We briefly discuss a model streamfunction, Hamiltonian advection equations, stationary points, and bifurcations. The phase portrait of the chosen model flow in the moving reference frame consists of a central eastward jet, chains of northern and southern circulations, and peripheral westward currents. Under a periodic perturbation of the meander's amplitude, the topology of the phase space is complicated by the presence of chaotic layers and chains of oscillatory and ballistic islands with sticky boundaries immersed into a stochastic sea. Typical chaotic trajectories of advected particles are shown to demonstrate a complicated behavior with long flights in both the directions of motion intermittent with trapping in the circulation cells being stuck to the boundaries of vortex cores and resonant islands. Transport is asymmetric in the sense that mixing between the circulations and the peripheral currents is, in general, different from mixing between the circulations and the jet. The transport properties are characterized by probability distribution functions (PDFs) of durations and lengths of flights. Both the PDFs exhibit at their tails power-law decay with different values of exponents.

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