Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2004-11-26
Phys. Rev. E, 72, 026218 (2005)
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
revised version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.026218
Transport properties of particles evolving in a system governed by the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima equation are investigated. Transport is found to be anomalous with a non linear evolution of the second moments with time. The origin of this anomaly is traced back to the presence of chaotic jets within the flow. All characteristic transport exponents have a similar value around $\mu=1.75$, which is also the one found for simple point vortex flows in the literature, indicating some kind of universality. Moreover the law $\gamma=\mu+1$ linking the trapping time exponent within jets to the transport exponent is confirmed and an accumulation towards zero of the spectrum of finite time Lyapunov exponent is observed. The localization of a jet is performed, and its structure is analyzed. It is clearly shown that despite a regular coarse grained picture of the jet, motion within the jet appears as chaotic but chaos is bounded on successive small scales.
Agullo Olivier
Benkadda Sadruddin
Leoncini Xavier
Zaslavsky George M.
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