Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
1994-02-22
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
16 pages, Tex, 20 figures available as hard copy
Scientific paper
We study a shell model for the energy cascade in three dimensional turbulence at varying the coefficients of the non-linear terms in such a way that the fundamental symmetries of Navier-Stokes are conserved. When a control parameter $\epsilon$ related to the strength of backward energy transfer is enough small, the dynamical system has a stable fixed point corresponding to the Kolmogorov scaling. This point becomes unstable at $\epsilon=0.3843...$ where a stable limit cycle appears via a Hopf bifurcation. By using the bi-orthogonal decomposition, the transition to chaos is shown to follow the Ruelle-Takens scenario. For $\epsilon > 0.3953..$ the dynamical evolution is intermittent with a positive Lyapunov exponent. In this regime, there exists a strange attractor which remains close to the Kolmogorov (now unstable) fixed point, and a local scaling invariance which can be described via a intermittent one-dimensional map.
Biferale Luca
Lambert Amaury
Lima Ricardo
Paladin Giovanni
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