Chaotic Advection and the Emergence of Tori in the Küppers-Lortz State

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2008-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/0804.4251v1

Chaos 18: 033104 (2008)

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

laTeX, 23 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2953575

Motivated by the roll-switching behavior observed in rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, we define a K\"uppers-Lortz (K-L) state as a volume-preserving flow with periodic roll switching. For an individual roll state, the Lagrangian particle trajectories are periodic. In a system with roll-switching, the particles can exhibit three-dimensional, chaotic motion. We study a simple phenomenological map that models the Lagrangian dynamics in a K-L state. When the roll axes differ by $120^{\circ}$ in the plane of rotation, we show that the phase space is dominated by invariant tori if the ratio of switching time to roll turnover time is small. When this parameter approaches zero these tori limit onto the classical hexagonal convection patterns, and, as it gets large, the dynamics becomes fully chaotic and well-mixed. For intermediate values, there are interlinked toroidal and poloidal structures separated by chaotic regions. We also compute the exit time distributions and show that the unbounded chaotic orbits are normally diffusive. Although the map presumes instantaneous switching between roll states, we show that the qualitative features of the flow persist when the model has smooth, overlapping time-dependence for the roll amplitudes (the Busse-Heikes model).

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