Transition to turbulence via spatiotemporal intermittency
Abstract
The transition to turbulence via spatiotemporal intermittency observed in a partial differential equation displays statistical features typical of critical phenomena. An analogy with directed percolation is drawn.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.112
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvL..58..112C
- Keywords:
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- Boundary Layer Transition;
- Chaos;
- Dynamical Systems;
- Intermittency;
- Turbulence;
- Laminar Flow;
- Partial Differential Equations;
- Percolation;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics