The route to hyperchaos is studied by direct numerical simulation of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the Boussinesq approximation. The fluid is confined between two planes in a square periodicity cell and convective attractors are obtained for the Rayleigh number varying from 1760 to 2500, for which the hyperchaotic regime emerges; all other parameters of the system are fixed. The temperature of the upper and bottom plane are held constant and the horizontal boundaries are stress-free and isothermal. In the range of parameter considered, 9 convective attractors were found. The three largest Lyapunov exponents were computed in order to characterize all the attractors. For this, two different numerical methods were employed, one considering hypervolumes deformation (standard method) and the other the linearized system of equations (linearization method). Both numerical methods used to compute Lyapunov exponents produce similar results. While the linearization one can be applied to spatially extended systems with no dimension limit the standard is faster but restricted to low dimension dynamical systems. There is coexistence of attractors in almost all range of the parameter and intermittency is found before the hyperchaotic regime. The results suggest that the hyperchaotic attractor is created in a crisis involving an chaotic attractor and a hyperchaotic saddle. This work, is the first study of transition from periodicity to hyperchaos in three-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection, an important step in understanding the onset of turbulence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:agregador.ibict.br.BDTD_ITA:oai:ita.br:3192 |
| Date | 25 February 2015 |
| Creators | Emanuel Vicente Chimanski |
| Contributors | Erico Luiz Rempel, Roman Chertovskih |
| Publisher | Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do ITA, instname:Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, instacron:ITA |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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