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- Title
Extracting flow structures from tracer data.
- Authors
Schneider, Judit; Tél, Tamás; Wolff, Jörg-Olaf
- Abstract
A method of visualizing structures in closed chaotic flows out of homogenous particle distributions is presented in the example of models of a meandering jet. To this end, the system will be leaked or opened up by defining a region of the flow, so that a particle is considered to be escaped if it leaves this region. By applying this method to an ensemble of nonescaped tracers, we are able to characterize mixing processes by visualizing the converging and stretching filamentations (stable and unstable manifolds) in the flow without using additional mathematical tools. The possibility of applying the algorithm to analyze buoy data, and a comparison with the finite time manifolds are discussed.
- Subjects
JETS (Fluid dynamics); CHAOS theory; MANIFOLDS (Mathematics); TRACERS (Chemistry); ALGORITHMS
- Publication
Ocean Dynamics, 2003, Vol 53, Issue 2, p64
- ISSN
1616-7341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10236-003-0024-0