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With a view to understanding the ``rheochaos'' observed in recent experiments in a variety of orientable fluids, we study numerically the equations of motion of the spatiotemporal evolution of the traceless symmetric order parameter of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Moumita Das , Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , Chandan Dasgupta , Sriram Ramaswamy , A. K. Sood

Brains process information through the collective dynamics of large neural networks. Collective chaos was suggested to underlie the complex ongoing dynamics observed in cerebral cortical circuits and determine the impact and processing of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-04 Rainer Engelken , Fred Wolf , L. F. Abbott

This is the third paper of the series of our studies of the one-dimensional self-gravitating many-body systems. In this paper, we thus study the transition phenomena after the first transition from a quasiequilibrium. We found that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Toshio Tsuchiya , Naoteru Gouda , Tetsuro Konishi

We provide appropriate tools for the analysis of dynamics and chaos for one-dimensional systems with periodic boundary conditions. Our approach allows for the investigation of the dependence of the largest Lyapunov exponent on various…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Pankaj Kumar , Bruce N. Miller

Intrinsic instability of trajectories characterizes chaotic dynamical systems. We report here that trajectories can exhibit a surprisingly high degree of stability, over a very long time, in a chaotic dynamical system. We provide a detailed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-17 Greg Huber , Marc Pradas , Alain Pumir , Michael Wilkinson

The distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays may yield clues to their mysterious origin. We introduce a method of {\it invariant statistics} to analyze cosmic ray data which eliminates coordinate-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Soebur Razzaque , John P. Ralston

It is shown that the asymptotic spectra of finite-time Lyapunov exponents of a variety of fully chaotic dynamical systems can be understood in terms of a statistical analysis. Using random matrix theory we derive numerical and in particular…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fotis Diakonos , Detlef Pingel , Peter Schmelcher

The influence of the presence of cosmic fluid on the magnetosonic waves and modulation instabilities in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies is investigated. The fluid model is developed by modifying the pressure equation in such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jyoti Turi , Gadadhar Banerjee

We use the H\'enon-Heiles system as a paradigmatic model for chaotic scattering to study the Lorentz factor effects on its transient chaotic dynamics. In particular, we focus on how time dilation occurs within the scattering region by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 D. S. Fernández , Á. G. López , J. M. Seoane , M. A. F. Sanjuán

The measurement of large scale patterns or anisotropies in the arrival direction of high energy cosmic rays is an important step towards the understanding of their origin. Such measurements rely on an accurate estimation of the detector…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. M. Santos , C. Bonifazi , A. Letessier-Selvon

The Kozai-Lidov mechanism can be applied to a vast variety of astrophysical systems involving hierarchical three-body systems. Here, we study the Kozai-Lidov mechanism systematically in the test particle limit at the octupole level of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gongjie Li , Smadar Naoz , Matt Holman , Abraham Loeb

In a recent work, [1] the equilibrium of a cluster of charged dust particles mutually interacting with screened Coulomb force and radially confined by an externally applied electric field in a 2-D configuration was studied. It was shown…

This paper summarises a numerical investigation of phase mixing in time-independent Hamiltonian systems that admit a coexistence of regular and chaotic phase space regions, allowing also for low amplitude perturbations idealised as periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry E. Kandrup , Steven J. Novotny

The study of the anisotropy of the arrival directions is an essential tool to investigate the origin and propagation of cosmic rays primaries. A simple way of recording many cosmic rays is to record coincidences between a number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 F. Sheidaei , M. Bahmanabadi , A. Keivani , M. Khakian Ghomi , J. Samimi , A. Shadkam

Using large-scale parallel numerical simulations we explore spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a cylindrical domain with experimentally relevant boundary conditions. We use the variation of the spectrum of Lyapunov…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alireza Karimi , Mark R. Paul

The spatial distribution of cosmic ray (CR) particles in the interstellar medium (ISM) is of major importance in radio astronomy, where its knowledge is essential for the interpretation of observations, and in theoretical astrophysics,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Devika Tharakkal , Andrew P. Snodin , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov

Time-resolved scattering experiments enable imaging of materials at the molecular scale with femtosecond time resolution. However, in disordered media they provide access to just one radial dimension thus limiting the study of orientational…

The primary focus of this thesis is the numerical investigation of chaos in Hamiltonian models describing charged particle orbits in plasma, star motions in barred galaxies, and orbits' diffusion in multidimensional maps. We systematically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-24 Henok Tenaw Moges

We study occurrence of chaos in a four-mirror optomechanical cavity with mechanical drives externally interacting with two transversely located moving-end mirrors of the cavity. The strong cavity mode, driven by the pump laser, excites…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Kashif Ammar Yasir , Gao Xianlong

The route to chaos and phase dynamics in a rotating shallow-water model were rigorously examined using a five-mode Galerkin truncated system with complex variables. This system is valuable for investigating how large/meso-scales destabilize…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-04 Francesco Carbone , Denys Dutykh