Performance of Lagrangian descriptors and their variants in incompressible flows

DOI10.1063/1.4966176zbMATH Open1378.37058arXiv1510.04838OpenAlexW2544879524WikidataQ88668490 ScholiaQ88668490MaRDI QIDQ4601367FDOQ4601367

Alfonso Ruiz-Herrera

Publication date: 15 January 2018

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

Abstract: The method of Lagrangian descriptors has been already applied in many different contexts, specially in geophysical flows. In this paper we analyze the performance of this methodology in incompressible flows. We demonstrate that barriers to transport are not always coded by singular features of the $M$ function as Mancho, Wiggins and their co-workers conjectured. The techniques presented here are not restricted to incompressible flows. In fact, by our approach, one can infer that the method of Lagrangian descriptors is not useful in most linear systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04838

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariant manifold theory for dynamical systems (37D10) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10)

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