Nonlinear dynamics induced by linear wave interactions in multilayered flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.84MaRDI QIDQ5364604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anirban Guha, Firdaus E. Udwadia

Publication date 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00629

zbMATH Keywords

instabilityshear layerswaves/free-surface flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

Abstract: Using simple kinematics, we propose a general theory of linear wave interactions between the interfacial waves of a two dimensional (2D), inviscid, multi-layered fluid system. The strength of our formalism is that one does not have to specify the physics of the waves in advance. Wave interactions may lead to instabilities, which may or may not be of the familiar "normal-mode" type. Contrary to intuition, the underlying dynamical system describing linear wave interactions is found to be non-linear. Specifically, a saw-tooth jet profile with three interfaces possessing kinematic and geometric symmetry is explored. Fixed points of the system for different ranges of a Froude number like control parameter $gamma$ are derived, and their stability evaluated. Depending upon the initial condition and $gamma$, the dynamical system may reveal transient growth, weakly positive Lyapunov exponents, as well as different non-linear phenomena such as formation of periodic and pseudo-periodic orbits. All these occur for those ranges of $gamma$ where normal-mode theory predicts neutral stability. Such rich non-linear phenomena is not observed in 2D dynamical system resulting from the $2$-wave problem, which only reveals stable and unstable nodes.

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