aSchool of Engineering Sciences, Ship Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
bSchool of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
Abstract:
The complexity of transition to chaotic flow is discussed. It is shown that many different bifurcation processes may coexist and join together to excite the chaotic flow. The profile of this nonlinear dynamical behaviour is developed on the basis of a four-mode truncation model.