Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Volume 339, Issue -, Pages 329-342Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2017.08.026
Keywords
Transition to turbulent flows; Fractional dynamics; Attractors; Numerical approximations; Stability; Convergence
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- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) of Spain - European Community fund FEDER [MTM2016-75140-P]
- XUNTA de Galicia [GRC2015-004, R2016/022]
- National Research Foundation (NRF) [105932]
- Simons Foundation
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The complexity of fluid flows remains an intriguing problem and many scientists are still struggling to gain new and reliable insight into the dynamics of fluids. Transition from laminar to turbulent flows is even more complex and many of its features remain surprising and unexplained. To describe transition to turbulence we introduce some fractional models and use numerical approximations to reveal the existence of attractor points. Two different cases are studied; the classical situation corresponding to the integer dimension one and the pure fractional case. The observed simulations show, in both cases, the presence of attractors near which iterations converge faster than usual. The behavior observed in the conventional case is in concordance with the well-known results that exist in the literature for relatively low order ordinary differential equations. The results observed in the fractional case are innovative since they reveal, not only the persistence of attractors, but also a possible better description of the transition to turbulent flows due to the variation of the fractional parameter that allows the control of the dynamics. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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