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Chaotic transients in spatially extended systems
Authors:Tams Tl  Ying-Cheng Lai
Institution:

aInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary

bDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

cDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

Abstract:Different transient-chaos related phenomena of spatiotemporal systems are reviewed. Special attention is paid to cases where spatiotemporal chaos appears in the form of chaotic transients only. The asymptotic state is then spatially regular. In systems of completely different origins, ranging from fluid dynamics to chemistry and biology, the average lifetimes of these spatiotemporal transients are found, however, to grow rapidly with the system size, often in an exponential fashion. For sufficiently large spatial extension, the lifetime might turn out to be larger than any physically realizable time. There is increasing numerical and experimental evidence that in many systems such transients mask the real attractors. Attractors may then not be relevant to certain types of spatiotemporal chaos, or turbulence. The observable dynamics is governed typically by a high-dimensional chaotic saddle. We review the origin of exponential scaling of the transient lifetime with the system size, and compare this with a similar scaling with system parameters known in low-dimensional problems. The effect of weak noise on such supertransients is discussed. Different crisis phenomena of spatiotemporal systems are presented and fractal properties of the chaotic saddles underlying high-dimensional supertransients are discussed. The recent discovery according to which turbulence in pipe flows is a very long lasting transient sheds new light on chaotic transients in other spatially extended systems.
Keywords:Transient chaos  Spatiotemporal dynamical systems  Supertransients  Chaotic saddle  Turbulence  Pipe flow
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