C. R. Constante-Amores

Relative periodic orbits in spatially extended Kolmogorov turbulence: from global to localized recurrence

Recurrent invariant solutions provide a dynamical framework for interpreting turbulence, but their computation becomes increasingly difficult in spatially extended flows, where close whole-domain recurrences are rare. We study two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow in a [Lx,Ly] = [2pi,12pi] domain with Re = 10 using a distrib...