Shear-flow transition: the basin boundary

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/22/11/004zbMATH Open1253.76028arXiv0904.2764OpenAlexW1991657280MaRDI QIDQ3645375FDOQ3645375

Authors: Norman R. Lebovitz 

Publication date: 18 November 2009

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The structure of the basin of attraction of a stable equilibrium point is investigated for a dynamical system (W97) often used to model transition to turbulence in shear flows. The basin boundary contains not only an equilibrium point Xlb but also a periodic orbit P, and it is the latter that mediates the transition. Orbits starting near Xlb relaminarize. We offer evidence that this is due to the extreme narrowness of the region complementary to basin of attraction in that part of phase space near Xlb. This leads to a proposal for interpreting the 'edge of chaos' in terms of more familiar invariant sets.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2764

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20)

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