Graduate School in Nonlinear Science

Sponsored by the Danish Research Academy





MIDIT                               OFD                           CATS
Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics       Optics and Fluid Dynamics     Chaos and Turbulence Studies
and Irreversible Thermodynamics     Risø National Laboratory      Niels Bohr Institute and 
Technical University of Denmark     Building 128                  Department of Chemistry
Building 321                        P.O. Box 49                   University of Copenhagen 
DK-2800 Lyngby                      DK-4000 Roskilde              DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark                             Denmark                       Denmark


PAINTING PICTURES OF TURBULENCE: CHAOTIC ADVECTION AND
TRANSPORT IN AN ESTUARINE FLOW

by James Stirling
IMM, DTU


Wednesday January 12, 2000, 13.00 h
at OFD-Meeting Room, Bld. 130,
Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde



Abstract: We extend the techniques developed in the first talk to look at chaotic advection, bifurcation and transport on the bounding surface of a fully coupled 3-dimensional map of our estuarine flow. For non slip boundary conditions in a fluid flow such surfaces are 2-dimensional invariant manifolds on which the flow is generically non-area preserving and hence due to the time periodicity can be reduced to a 2 dimensional non-area preserving Poincaré map. We then apply these techinques to the problems of patchiness and optimal discharge of pollution in our estuarine flow.