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Turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows is increasingly understood through exact coherent structures (ECS) -- invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations that act as organising centres in the high-dimensional state space. Here we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Akshit Nanda , Ritabrata Thakur

Turbulent pipe flows exhibit organizational states (OSs) that are labelled by discrete azimuthal wavenumber modes and are reminiscent of the traveling wave solutions of low Reynolds number regimes. The discretized time evolution of the OSs,…

We numerically investigate the flow structure of periodic steady water waves of fixed relative mass flux propagating on rotational flows with piece-wise constant vorticity. We show that for wave solutions along the global bifurcation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Lin Chen , Biswajit Basu , Calin-I Martin

In this essay, we recall the specificities of the transition to turbulence in wall-bounded flows and present recent achievements in the understanding of this problem. The transition is abrupt with laminar-turbulent coexistence over a finite…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-05 Paul Manneville

We show that, in the transitional regime of pulsatile pipe flow, at moderate-to-high amplitudes 0.5 < A < 1, the first long-lived turbulent structures are localized and take the form of the puffs and slugs observed in statistically steady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-03 Daniel Morón , Marc Avila

We analytically derive an equation describing vesicle evolution in a fluid where some stationary flow is excited regarding that the vesicle shape is close to a sphere. A character of the evolution is governed by two dimensionless…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Lebedev , K. S. Turitsyn , S. S. Vergeles

This paper studies various Hopf bifurcations in the two-dimensional plane Poiseuille problem. For several values of the wavenumber $\alpha$, we obtain the branch of periodic flows which are born at the Hopf bifurcation of the laminar flow.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Pablo S. Casas , Angel Jorba

We study the dynamics of a two-planet system, which evolves being in a $1/1$ mean motion resonance (co-orbital motion) with non-zero mutual inclination. In particular, we examine the existence of bifurcations of periodic orbits from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis , Harry Varvoglis

The swirling flow in a Francis type hydropower turbine is known to be susceptible to the formation of a large helical structure, commonly referred to as a vortex rope. This vortex rope can be interpreted as an unstable mode associated with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Artur Gesla , Eunok Yim

Although the equations governing fluid flow are well known, there are no analytical expressions that describe the complexity of turbulent motion. A recent proposition is that in analogy to low dimensional chaotic systems, turbulence is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-11 Marc Avila , Fernando Mellibovsky , Nicolas Roland , Bjoern Hof

Wall-bounded flows experience a transition to turbulence characterized by the coexistence of laminar and turbulent domains in some range of Reynolds number R, the natural control parameter. This transitional regime takes place between an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-03 Paul Manneville

This paper is concerned with the transition of the laminar flow in a duct of square cross-section. Like in the similar case of the pipe flow, the motion is linearly stable for all Reynolds numbers, rendering this flow a suitable candidate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-02 Damien Biau , Alessandro Bottaro

The transition to turbulence exhibits remarkable spatio-temporal behavior that continues to defy detailed understanding. Near the onset to turbulence in pipes, transient turbulent regions decay either directly or, at higher Reynolds numbers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-10 Hong-Yan Shih , Tsung-Lin Hsieh , Nigel Goldenfeld

Microresonator frequency combs, essential for future integrated optical systems, rely on dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a single microresonator to achieve coherent frequency comb generation. Recent advances in the nanofabrication of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-14 Savyaraj Deshmukh , Aleksandr Tusnin , Alexey Tikan , Tobias J. Kippenberg , Tobias M. Schneider

This paper studies periodic traveling gravity waves at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings the free-boundary problem is transformed into a quasilinear pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Adrian Constantin , Eugen Varvaruca

Periodic orbits are among the simplest non-equilibrium solutions to dynamical systems, and they play a significant role in our modern understanding of the rich structures observed in many systems. For example, it is known that embedded…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Jason J. Bramburger , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) are the non-chaotic, dynamical building blocks of spatio-temporal chaos, motivating a first-principles based theory for turbulence ever since the discovery of deterministic chaos. Despite their key role in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Pierre Beck , Tobias M. Schneider

The structure of the basin of attraction of a stable equilibrium point is investigated for a dynamical system (W97) often used to model transition to turbulence in shear flows. The basin boundary contains not only an equilibrium point Xlb…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Norman Lebovitz

We obtain and investigate theoretically a broad family of stable and unstable time-periodic orbits-oscillating Turing rolls (OTR)-in the Lugiato-Lefever model of optical cavities. Using the dynamical systems tools developed in fluid…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Andrey Gelash , Savyaraj Deshmukh , Andrey Shusharin , Tobias M. Schneider , Tobias J. Kippenberg

The results of a combined experimental and numerical study of the flow in slowly diverging pipes are presented. Interestingly, an axisymmetric conical recirculation cell has been observed. The conditions for its existence and the length of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-13 Jorge Peixinho , Hugues Besnard