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The route to chaos for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

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We present the results of extensive numerical experiments of the spatially periodic initial value problem for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Our concern is with the asymptotic nonlinear dynamics as the dissipation parameter decreases and spatio-temporal chaos sets in. To this end the initial condition is taken to be the same for all numerical experiments (a single sine wave is used) and the large time evolution of the system is followed numerically. Numerous computations were performed to establish the existence of windows, in parameter space, in which the solution has the following characteristics as the viscosity is decreased: a steady fully modal attractor to a steady bimodal attractor to another steady fully modal attractor to a steady trimodal attractor to a periodic (in time) attractor, to another steady fully modal attractor, to another time-periodic attractor, to a steady tetramodal attractor, to another time-periodic attractor having a full sequence of period-doublings (in the parameter space) to chaos. Numerous solutions are presented which provide conclusive evidence of the period-doubling cascades which precede chaos for this infinite-dimensional dynamical system. These results permit a computation of the lengths of subwindows which in turn provide an estimate for their successive ratios as the cascade develops. A calculation based on the numerical results is also presented to show that the period-doubling sequences found here for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, are in complete agreement with Feigenbaum's universal constant of 4.669201609.... Some preliminary work shows several other windows following the first chaotic one including periodic, chaotic, and a steady octamodal window; however, the windows shrink significantly in size to enable concrete quantitative conclusions to be made.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 07102, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.

    Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 90024-1555, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

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Communicated by Philip Hall

This research was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract No. NASI-18605 while the authors were in residence at the Institute of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23665. Additional support for the second author was provided by ONR Grant N-00014-86-K-0691 while he was at UCLA.

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Papageorgiou, D.T., Smyrlis, Y.S. The route to chaos for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Theoret. Comput. Fluid Dynamics 3, 15–42 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00271514

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