Reduction of SO(2) Symmetry for Spatially Extended Dynamical Systems

Nazmi Burak Budanur, Predrag Cvitanović, Ruslan L. Davidchack, and Evangelos Siminos
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 084102 – Published 27 February 2015

Abstract

Spatially extended systems, such as channel or pipe flows, are often equivariant under continuous symmetry transformations, with each state of the flow having an infinite number of equivalent solutions obtained from it by a translation or a rotation. This multitude of equivalent solutions tends to obscure the dynamics of turbulence. Here we describe the “first Fourier mode slice,” a very simple, easy to implement reduction of SO(2) symmetry. While the method exhibits rapid variations in phase velocity whenever the magnitude of the first Fourier mode is nearly vanishing, these near singularities can be regularized by a time-scaling transformation. We show that after application of the method, hitherto unseen global structures, for example, Kuramoto-Sivashinsky relative periodic orbits and unstable manifolds of traveling waves, are uncovered.

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  • Received 6 June 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.084102

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Nazmi Burak Budanur1, Predrag Cvitanović1, Ruslan L. Davidchack2, and Evangelos Siminos3

  • 1Center for Nonlinear Science, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA
  • 2Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
  • 3Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

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Vol. 114, Iss. 8 — 27 February 2015

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