Dynamical Systems and the Two-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
C. Eugene Wayne
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Navier Stokes Equations

scholarly journals Attractors and Finite-Dimensional Behaviour in the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Navier Stokes Equations ◽  
Infinite Dimensional ◽  
Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems ◽  
Finite Dimensional

The purpose of this review is to give a broad outline of the dynamical systems approach to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. This example has led to much of the theory of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, which is now well developed. A second aim of this review is to highlight a selection of interesting open problems, both in the analysis of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and in the wider field of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems.

Direct simulation of transition in an oscillatory boundary layer

1998 ◽  
Vol 371 ◽  
pp. 207-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. VITTORI ◽  
R. VERZICCO
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Turbulent Regime ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Temporal Development ◽  
Direct Simulation ◽  
Navier Stokes Equations ◽  
Oscillatory Boundary Layer

Numerical simulations of Navier–Stokes equations are performed to study the flow originated by an oscillating pressure gradient close to a wall characterized by small imperfections. The scenario of transition from the laminar to the turbulent regime is investigated and the results are interpreted in the light of existing analytical theories. The ‘disturbed-laminar’ and the ‘intermittently turbulent’ regimes detected experimentally are reproduced by the present simulations. Moreover it is found that imperfections of the wall are of fundamental importance in causing the growth of two-dimensional disturbances which in turn trigger turbulence in the Stokes boundary layer. Finally, in the intermittently turbulent regime, a description is given of the temporal development of turbulence characteristics.

Development of mixing and isotropy in inviscid homogeneous turbulence

1982 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 155-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Stokes System ◽  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Fourier Space ◽  
Kolmogorov Entropy ◽  
Navier Stokes Equations ◽  
Constant Energy

We have investigated a sequence of dynamical systems corresponding to spherical truncations of the incompressible three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in Fourier space. For lower-order truncated systems up to the spherical truncation of wavenumber radius 4, it is concluded that the inviscid Navier-Stokes system will develop mixing (and a fortiori ergodicity) on the constant energy-helicity surface, and also isotropy of the covariance spectral tensor. This conclusion is, however, drawn not directly from the mixing definition but from the observation that one cannot evolve the trajectory numerically much beyond several characteristic corre- lation times of the smallest eddy owing to the accumulation of round-off errors. The limited evolution time is a manifestation of trajectory instability (exponential orbit separation) which underlies not only mixing, but also the stronger dynamical charac- terization of positive Kolmogorov entropy (K-system).

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