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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Chaos
- Message-ID: <1108@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:53:15 GMT
- References: <75929@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Jul15.192006.19037@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul21.174653.28962@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In article <1992Jul21.174653.28962@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> hatay@spot.Colorado.EDU (Ferhat F. Hatay) writes:
- >Talking about the low-dimensional system: Can I bring the
- >work of Glauser and his coworkers to your attention?
- >In this line of work, they use the Proper Orthogonal
- >Decomposition idea of Lumley to turbulent flows.
- >POD modes are obtained either experimentally or numerically.
-
- >Does anyone think this kind of work might provide a
- >link between chaos and turbulence (in fluids) ?
-
- Sure. M. Ghil and R. Vautard have worked out a similar kind of EOF which
- is applied to climate forecasting (in particular the El Nino - Southern
- Oscillation) I have no doubt that Ghil and his collaborators will have other
- links in the literature by now.
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- It's hard to pass judgement on whether or not this kind of connection
- 'establishes' chaos in fluids, since EOF analysis is not predicated on
- deterministic chaos. Neither are nearest neighbors techniques.
-
- For those really resistant to the idea that chaos is relevant to fluids,
- they should look at the kind of experiments A. Libchaber has done.
-
- For those who want to insist that turbulence is 'nothing but' chaos, they
- should look at experiments like H. Swinney has done.
-
- As anyone in their right scientific mind would have guessed - a problem that
- foxed Heisenberg, G.I. Taylor, Poincare, Landau and many others - is a problem
- with more than a two line solution.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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