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In this note, we propose a new idea by analyzing the basic disturbance equations, and give starting equations for understanding the instability phenomena of laminar flows and transition to turbulence. It is considered that there is an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou

The unexpected features of the two-stream instability in electrostatic quantum plasmas are interpreted in terms of the coupling of approximate fast and slow waves. This is accomplished thanks to the factorization of the dispersion relation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Haas , A. Bret , P. K. Shukla

Dynamical chaos is a fundamental manifestation of gravity in astrophysical, many-body systems. The spectrum of Lyapunov exponents quantifies the associated exponential response to small perturbations. Analytical derivations of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Tjarda C. N. Boekholt , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Douglas C. Heggie

We study convergence in networks of piecewise-smooth (PWS) systems that commonly arise in applications to model dynamical systems whose evolution is affected by macroscopic events such as switches and impacts. Existing approaches were…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Marco Coraggio , Pietro DeLellis , S. John Hogan , Mario di Bernardo

The erratic nature of chaotic behavior is thought to erode the stability of periodic behavior, including topological oscillations. However, we discover that in the presence of chaos, non-trivial topology not only endures but also provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Haydar Sahin , Hakan Akgün , Zhuo Bin Siu , S. M. Rafi-Ul-Islam , Jian Feng Kong , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Ching Hua Lee

Group formation and coordination are fundamental characteristics of living systems, essential for performing tasks and ensuring survival. Interactions between individuals play a key role in group formation, and the impact of resource…

We develop a statistical theory of waveform shaping of incident waves that aim to efficiently deliver energy at weakly lossy targets which are embedded inside chaotic enclosures. Our approach utilizes the universal features of chaotic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 Huanan Li , Suwun Suwunnarat , Tsampikos Kottos

The dynamical properties of a particle in a gravitational field colliding with a rigid wall moving with piecewise constant velocity are studied. The linear nature of the wall's motion permits further analytical investigation than is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-02 Cameron K. Langer , Bruce N. Miller

We study local features, and provide a topological insight into the global structure of the probability density distribution and of the pattern of the optimal paths for large rare fluctuations away from a stable state. In contrast to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Mark I. Dykman , Mark M. Millonas , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy

Classical linear wave superposition produces the appearance of interference. This observation can be interpreted in two equivalent ways: one can assume that interference is an illusion because input components remain unperturbed, or that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Ghenadie N. Mardari , James A. Greenwood

The subject of this study is the long-time equilibration dynamics of a strongly disordered one-dimensional chain of coupled weakly anharmonic classical oscillators. It is argued that chaos in this system has a very particular spatial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 D. M. Basko

In network systems, a local perturbation can amplify as it propagates, potentially leading to a large-scale cascading failure. Here we derive a continuous model to advance our understanding of cascading failures in power-grid networks. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-18 Yang Yang , Adilson E. Motter

A decade and a half ago Chatterjee established the first rigorous connection between anomalous fluctuations and a chaotic behaviour of the ground state in certain Gaussian disordered systems. The purpose of this paper is to show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Daniel Ahlberg , Maria Deijfen , Matteo Sfragara

What is chaos? Despite several decades of research on this ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon there is yet no agreed-upon answer to this question. Recently, it was realized that all stochastic and deterministic differential equations,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-10 Igor V. Ovchinnikov , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The transition to turbulence is characterized by an abrupt loss of order and predictability, featuring the intermittent proliferation and decay of localized turbulent structures. En-route to becoming fully turbulent, surprisingly order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-15 Roger Ayats , Lukasz Klotz , Björn Hof

This article examines the subtle relationship between chaos and randomness, two concepts that, although they refer to seemingly unpredictable phenomenon, are based on fundamentally different principles. Chaos manifests in deterministic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Mohamed El Ouafi , Hajar Ahalli , Abderrahim Aslimani , Kaoutar Lamrini Uahabi

Bohmian mechanics, a hydrodynamic formulation of quantum mechanics, relies on the concept of trajectory, which evolves in time in compliance with dynamical information conveyed by the wave function. Here this appealing idea is considered to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 M. Davidovic , A. S. Sanz , M. Bozic

Effect of noise in inducing order on various chaotically evolving systems is reviewed, with special emphasis on systems consisting of coupled chaotic elements. In many situations it is observed that the uncoupled elements when driven by…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Manojit Roy , R. E. Amritkar

Non-reciprocal interactions between scalar fields that represent the concentrations of two active species are known to break the parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetries of the equilibrium state, as manifested in the emergence of travelling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-01 Suropriya Saha , Ramin Golestanian

Instabilities at interface of two stream granular flows have been reported in recent experiment [1] that breaking waves can form at the interface between two streams of identical grains flowing on an inclined plane downstream of a splitter…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou , Boo Cheong Khoo , Nhan Phan-Thien