From travelling waves to mild chaos: A supercritical bifurcation cascade in pipe flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 709, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-190

  Mellibovsky, F ^a   Eckhardt, B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bifurcation; chaos; transition to turbulence

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DISCRETE SYMMETRY; INVARIANT MANIFOLDS; NUMERICAL EVIDENCE; SUCCESSIVE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCRITICAL BIFURCATION; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

BIFURCATION; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

EID: 84869780600     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.326     Document Type: Article

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