Effective transport barriers in nontwist systems

Details Effective transport barriers in nontwist systems Effective transport barriers in nontwist systems

2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3549v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

20 pages, 9 figures

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In fluids and plasmas with zonal flow reversed shear, a peculiar kind of transport barrier appears in the shearless region, one that is associated with a proper route of transition to chaos. Using a symplectic nontwist maps, which model such zonal flows, we investigate these barriers. In particular, the standard nontwist map, a paradigm of nontwist systems, is used to analyze the parameter dependence of the transport through a broken shearless barrier. Varying a proper control parameter, we identify the onset of structures with high stickiness that give rise to an effective barrier near the broken shearless curve. Several diagnostics are used: stickiness is measured by escape time and transmissivity plots, while barriers that separate different regions of stickiness are identified by employing two indicators in the phase space, the finite-time rotation number and the finite-time Lyapunov exponent.

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