Almost-invariant sets and invariant manifolds: Connecting probabilistic and geometric descriptions of coherent structures in flows

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We study the transport and mixing properties of flows in a variety of settings, connecting the classical geometrical approach via invariant manifolds with a probabilistic approach via transfer operators. For non-divergent fluid-like flows, we demonstrate that eigenvectors of numerical transfer operators efficiently decompose the domain into invariant regions. For dissipative chaotic flows such a decomposition into invariant regions does not exist; instead, the transfer operator approach detects almost-invariant sets. We demonstrate numerically that the boundaries of these almost-invariant regions are predominantly comprised of segments of co-dimension 1 invariant manifolds. For a mixing periodically driven fluid-like flow we show that while sets bounded by stable and unstable manifolds are almost-invariant, the transfer operator approach can identify almost-invariant sets with smaller mass leakage. Thus the transport mechanism of lobe dynamics need not correspond to minimal transport. The transfer operator approach is purely probabilistic; it directly determines those regions that minimally mix with their surroundings. The almost-invariant regions are identified via eigenvectors of a transfer operator and are ranked by the corresponding eigenvalues in the order of the sets' invariance or "leakiness". While we demonstrate that the almost-invariant sets are often bounded by segments of invariant manifolds, without such a ranking it is not at all clear which intersections of invariant manifolds form the major barriers to mixing. Furthermore, in some cases invariant manifolds do not bound sets of minimal leakage. Our transfer operator constructions are very simple and fast to implement; they require a sample of short trajectories, followed by eigenvector calculations of a sparse matrix.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftPhysica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Jahrgang238
Ausgabenummer16
Seiten (von - bis)1507-1523
Anzahl der Seiten17
ISSN0167-2789
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.08.2009
Extern publiziertJa

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Funding Information:
GF was partially supported by a John Yu Fellowship to Europe, a UNSW Faculty of Science Research Grant, and the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP0770289. KP was partially supported by a University of Paderborn Research Grant, the DFG Research Training Group GK-693 of the Paderborn Institute for Scientific Computation (PaSCo) and by the European Union (contract no. 12999). KP thanks Michael Dellnitz for fruitful discussions at an early stage of this work.

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