TY - JOUR A1 - Froyland, Gary A1 - Koltai, Peter A1 - Stahn, Martin T1 - Computation and optimal perturbation of finite-time coherent sets for aperiodic flows without trajectory integration JF - SIAM journal on applied dynamical systems N2 - Understanding the macroscopic behavior of dynamical systems is an important tool to unravel transport mechanisms in complex flows. A decomposition of the state space into coherent sets is a popular way to reveal this essential macroscopic evolution. To compute coherent sets from an aperiodic time-dependent dynamical system we consider the relevant transfer operators and their infinitesimal generators on an augmented space-time manifold. This space-time generator approach avoids trajectory integration and creates a convenient linearization of the aperiodic evolution. This linearization can be further exploited to create a simple and effective spectral optimization methodology for diminishing or enhancing coherence. We obtain explicit solutions for these optimization problems using Lagrange multipliers and illustrate this technique by increasing and decreasing mixing of spatial regions through small velocity field perturbations. KW - coherent set KW - mixing KW - transfer operator KW - infinitesimal generator KW - unsteady flow KW - mixing optimization Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1261791 SN - 1536-0040 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 1659 EP - 1700 PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Koltai, Peter A1 - Lie, Han Cheng A1 - Plonka, Martin T1 - Frechet differentiable drift dependence of Perron-Frobenius and Koopman operators for non-deterministic dynamics JF - Nonlinearity N2 - We prove the Fréchet differentiability with respect to the drift of Perron–Frobenius and Koopman operators associated to time-inhomogeneous ordinary stochastic differential equations. This result relies on a similar differentiability result for pathwise expectations of path functionals of the solution of the stochastic differential equation, which we establish using Girsanov's formula. We demonstrate the significance of our result in the context of dynamical systems and operator theory, by proving continuously differentiable drift dependence of the simple eigen- and singular values and the corresponding eigen- and singular functions of the stochastic Perron–Frobenius and Koopman operators. KW - stochastic differential equations KW - transfer operator KW - Koopman operator KW - Perron-Frobenius operator KW - smooth drift dependence KW - linear response KW - pathwise expectations Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6544/ab1f2a SN - 0951-7715 SN - 1361-6544 VL - 32 IS - 11 SP - 4232 EP - 4257 PB - IOP Publ. Ltd. CY - Bristol ER -