Variational methods for finding periodic orbits in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.299zbMATH Open1505.76023arXiv2108.12219OpenAlexW3198063264MaRDI QIDQ5073447FDOQ5073447

Authors: Jeremy P. Parker, Tobias M. Schneider 

Publication date: 29 April 2022

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

Abstract: Unstable periodic orbits are believed to underpin the dynamics of turbulence, but by their nature are hard to find computationally. We present a family of methods to converge such unstable periodic orbits for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, based on variations of an integral objective functional, and using traditional gradient-based optimisation strategies. Different approaches for handling the incompressibility condition are considered. The variational methods are applied to the specific case of periodic, two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow and compared against existing Newton iteration-based shooting methods. While computationally slow, our methods converge from very inaccurate initial guesses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12219

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear dynamical systemunstable periodic orbitgradient-based optimisationintegral objective functionalperiodic two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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• channelflow

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