Suppression of chaos at slow variables by rapidly mixing fast dynamics through linear energy-preserving coupling

DOI10.4310/CMS.2012.V10.N2.A9zbMATH Open1291.37104arXiv1105.3164MaRDI QIDQ389967FDOQ389967

Authors: Rafail V. Abramov 

Publication date: 22 January 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Chaotic multiscale dynamical systems are common in many areas of science, one of the examples being the interaction of the low-frequency dynamics in the atmosphere with the fast turbulent weather dynamics. One of the key questions about chaotic multiscale systems is how the fast dynamics affects chaos at the slow variables, and, therefore, impacts uncertainty and predictability of the slow dynamics. Here we demonstrate that the linear slow-fast coupling with the total energy conservation property promotes the suppression of chaos at the slow variables through the rapid mixing at the fast variables, both theoretically and through numerical simulations. A suitable mathematical framework is developed, connecting the slow dynamics on the tangent subspaces to the infinite-time linear response of the mean state to a constant external forcing at the fast variables. Additionally, it is shown that the uncoupled dynamics for the slow variables may remain chaotic while the complete multiscale system loses chaos and becomes completely predictable at the slow variables through increasing chaos and turbulence at the fast variables. This result contradicts the common sense intuition, where, naturally, one would think that coupling a slow weakly chaotic system with another much faster and much stronger mixing system would result in general increase of chaos at the slow variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3164

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zbMATH Keywords

chaosmixingmultiscale dynamicspredictability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Computational methods for ergodic theory (approximation of invariant measures, computation of Lyapunov exponents, entropy, etc.) (37M25) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10)

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