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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 26: Focus Session: Percolation and turbulent transition
DY 26.7: Talk
Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 11:45–12:00, BH-N 243
Emerging spatiotemporal dynamics in fluid flow — •Marc Avila1, Paul Ritter1, and Fernando Mellibovsky2 — 1FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany — 2UPC, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain
As of today, no theoretical framework fully describes the emergence of turbulent dynamics in shear flows. A dynamical-systems approach suggests that invariant solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, like traveling waves and relative periodic orbits in pipe flow, act as building blocks of the disordered dynamics. While recent studies have shown how transient chaos arises from such solutions, the ensuing dynamics lacks the strong fluctuations in size, shape and speed of turbulent spots observed in experiments. In this talk I will show that the interaction of chaotic spots with distinct dynamical and kinematic properties gives rise to enhanced spatiotemporal fluctuations, providing a bridge from chaos toward turbulence. The link between the phase-space interpretation of the dynamics and percolation-like models will be discussed.