TY  - INPR
A1  - Braun, Robert
A1  - Feudel, Fred
A1  - Seehafer, Norbert
T1  - Bifurcations and chaos in an array of forced vortices
N2  - We have studied the bifurcation structure of the incompressible two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with a special external forcing driving an array of 8×8 counterrotating vortices. The study has been motivated by recent experiments with thin layers of electrolytes showing, among other things, the formation of large-scale spatial patterns. As the strength of the forcing or the Reynolds number is raised the original stationary vortex array becomes unstable and a complex sequence of bifurcations is observed. The bifurcations lead to several periodic branches, torus and chaotic solutions, and other stationary solutions. Most remarkable is the appearance of solutions characterized by structures on spatial scales large compared to the scale of the forcing. We also characterize the different dynamic regimes by means of tracers injected into the fluid. Stretching rates and Hausdorff dimensions of convected line elements are calculated to quantify the mixing process. It turns out that for time-periodic velocity fields the mixing can be very effective.
T3  - NLD Preprints - 37 
Y1  - 2007
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1326
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14564
ER  -