A numerical simulation of the transition to turbulence in a two- dimensional flow

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(87)90184-7zbMath0611.76071OpenAlexW2016477680MaRDI QIDQ1087422

Jean-Jacques Gervais, André Fortin, Michel Fortin

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(87)90184-7

zbMATH Keywords

strange attractorsfinite element methodnumerical simulationunsteady Navier-Stokes equationstransition to turbulencesteady-state solutionLyapunov's exponentsPhase space diagramsstandard Galerkin approximationweakly chaotic solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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