High dimensional tori and chaotic and intermittent transients in magnetohydrodynamic Couette flows

The magnetised spherical Couette (MSC) problem, a three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic paradigmatic model in geo- and astrophysics, is considered to investigate bifurcations to high-dimensional invariant tori and chaotic flows in large scale dissipative dynamical systems with symmetry. The main goa...

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Autores: García González, Fernando|||0000-0003-4507-0486, Ogbonna, Jude, Giesecke, André, Stefani, Frank
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/386783
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/386783
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2022.107030
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hydrodynamics
Magnetohydrodynamics
High-dimensional tori
Chaotic transients
Hidrodinàmica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria mecànica::Mecànica de fluids
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Sumario:The magnetised spherical Couette (MSC) problem, a three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic paradigmatic model in geo- and astrophysics, is considered to investigate bifurcations to high-dimensional invariant tori and chaotic flows in large scale dissipative dynamical systems with symmetry. The main goal of the present study is to elucidate the origin of chaotic transients and intermittent behaviour from two different sequences of Hopf bifurcations involving invariant tori with four fundamental frequencies, which may be resonant. Numerical evidence of the existence of a crisis event destroying chaotic attractors and giving rise to the chaotic transients is provided. It is also shown that unstable invariant tori take part in the time evolution of these chaotic transients. For one sequence of bifurcations, the study demonstrates that chaotic transients display on–off intermittent behaviour. A possible explanatory mechanism is discussed.