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In this paper, we consider chaotic dynamics and variational structures of area-preserving maps. There is a lot of study on dynamics of their maps and the works of Poincare and Birkhoff are well-known. To consider variational structures of…
Passive scalar equation is considered in a turbulent homogeneous incompressible Gaussian velocity field. The turbulent nature of the field results in non-smooth coefficients in the equation. A strong, in the stochastic sense, solution of…
This paper studies the existence of invariant smooth Lagrangian graphs for Tonelli Hamiltonian systems with symmetries. In particular, we consider Tonelli Hamiltonians with n independent but not necessarily involutive constants of motion…
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In this work we study the integrability of a family of nonlinear oscillators. Dynamical systems from this family appear in different applications from mechanics to chemistry. We propose an approach for finding first integrals and…
In this paper, we are concerned with studying the existence of invariant complex manifolds of two-dimensional holomorphic systems. From the geometric singular perturbation theory we know that if a slow-fast system has associated a normally…
We give an algorithmic introduction to Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) using a newly developed computational engine, LCS Tool. LCSs are most repelling, attracting and shearing material lines that form the centerpieces of observed…
Using a Langevin description of spinodal decomposition in fluids, we examine domain growth in the diffusive, viscous and inertial regimes. In the framework of this model, numerical results corroborate earlier theoretical predictions based…
Experiments observing the liquid surface in a vertically oscillating container have indicated that modeling the dynamics of such systems require maps that admit states at infinity. In this paper we investigate the bifurcations in such a…
A dynamical system framework is used to describe transport processes in plasmas embedded in a magnetic field. For periodic systems with one degree of freedom the Poincar\'e map provides a splitting of the phase space into regions where…
A compressible generalization of the Kraichnan model (Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1016 (1994)) of passive scalar advection is considered. The dynamical role of compressibility on the intermittency of the scalar statistics is investigated for the…
The paper studies the behavior of the trajectories of fluid particles in a compressible generalization of the Kraichnan ensemble of turbulent velocities. We show that, depending on the degree of compressibility, the trajectories either…
The motion of water is governed by the Navier-Stokes equations, which are complemented by the continuity equation to ensure local mass conservation. In this work, we construct the relativistic generalization of these equations through a…
The dynamics of compressible liquid-vapor flow depends sensitively on the microscale behavior at the phase boundary. We consider a sharp-interface approach, and propose a multiscale model to describe liquid-vapor flow accurately, without…
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Here we show that passive scalars possess a hidden scaling symmetry when considering suitably rescaled fields. Such a symmetry implies (i) universal probability distribution for scalar multipliers and (ii) Perron-Frobenius scenario for the…
Nontwist area-preserving maps violate the twist condition along shearless invariant curves, which act as transport barriers in phase space. Recently, some plasma models have presented multiple shearless curves in phase space and these…