Characterization of the spatial complex behavior and transition to chaos in flow systems |
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Affiliation: | 1. CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão 4485-661, Portugal;2. Computational Biology Institute, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA;3. Piscicultura Vale da Lama, Sapal do Vale da Lama, Odiáxere, Lagos 8600-258, Portugal;4. School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK |
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Abstract: | We introduce a “spatial” Lyapunov exponent to characterize the complex behavior of non-chaotic but convectively unstable flow sytems. This complexity is of spatial type and is due to sensitivity to the boundary conditions. We show that there exists a relation between the spatial-complexity index we define and the comoving Lyapunov exponents. In such systems the transition to chaos, i.e., the occurrence of a positive Lyapunov exponent, can manifest itself in two different ways. In the first case (from neither chaotic nor spatially complex behavior to chaos) one observes the typical scenario; i.e., as the system size grows up the spectrum of the Lyapunov exponents gives rise to a density. In the second case (when the chaos develops from a convectively unstable situation) one observes only a finite number of positive Lyapunov exponents. |
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