Measuring topological chaos

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Thiffeault, Jean Luc ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIDING; CAVITY FLOW; FLUID PARTICLES; SNAG;

DYNAMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUIDS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 18144365857     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.084502     Document Type: Article

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