The Size of Ghost Rods

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2005-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0510076v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

11 pages, 6 figures. CISM proceedins style (included) with psfrag macros. To be published in `Proceedings of the Workshop on A

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'Ghost Rods' are periodic structures in a two-dimensional flow that have an effect on material lines that is similar to real stirring rods. An example is a periodic island: material lines exterior to it must wrap around such an island, because determinism forbids them from crossing through it. Hence, islands act as topological obstacles to material lines, just like physical rods, and lower bounds on the rate of stretching of material lines can be deduced from the motion of islands and rods. Here, we show that unstable periodic orbits can also act as ghost rods, as long as material lines can 'fold' around the orbit, which requires the orbit to be parabolic. We investigate the factors that determine the effective size of ghost rods, that is, the magnitude of their impact on material lines.

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