Symbolic dynamics and chaos in plane Couette flow
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Publication:515561
DOI10.4310/DPDE.2017.V14.N1.A5zbMATH Open1457.37106arXiv1503.02099OpenAlexW2962809844MaRDI QIDQ515561FDOQ515561
Publication date: 16 March 2017
Published in: Dynamics of Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: According to a recent theory cite{Li14}, when the Reynolds number is large, fully developed turbulence is caused by short term unpredictability (rough dependence upon initial data); when the Reynolds number is moderate, often transient turbulence is caused by chaos (long term unpredictability). This article aims at studying chaos in plane Couette flow at moderate Reynolds number. Based upon the work of L. van Veen and G. Kawahara cite{VK11} on a transversal homoclinic orbit asymptotic to a limit cycle in plane Couette flow, we explore symbolic dynamics and chaos near the homoclinic orbit. Mathematical analysis shows that there is a collection of orbits in the neighborhood of the homoclinic orbit, which is in one-to-one correspondence with the collection of binary sequences. The Bernoulli shift on the binary sequences corresponds to a chaotic dynamics of a properly defined return map.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02099
Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10)
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