Although the equations governing fluid flow are well known, there are no analytical expressions that describe the complexity of turbulent motion. A recent proposition is that in analogy to low dimensional chaotic systems, turbulence is organized around unstable solutions of the governing equations which provide the building blocks of the disordered dynamics. We report the discovery of periodic solutions which just like intermittent turbulence are spatially localized and show that turbulence arises from one such solution branch.
CITATION STYLE
Avila, M., Mellibovsky, F., Roland, N., & Hof, B. (2012). Building blocks of turbulence. ArXiv, 1–4. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0230
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.