Kuramoto-Sivashinsky turbulence: a fishing expedition
Flickering
flame
front
Described by the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

A fishing trip by the Georgia Tech PHYS 4267/7224 ‘Introduction to nonlinear dynamics and chaos’ class, spring 2007
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contact author Matt Marshall (at gmail.com, prfx raequin) for comments, contributions - some results not yet included in the report

We used Ruslan L. Davidchack's implementation of Kassam and Trefethen code [1]:

ChaosBook.org/extras/#KSEproject

The periodic domain size (L) was varied, and the behavior of the system over long time was observed. If possible, a point on the system's attractor was used as the starting configuration. Three plots were generated for the system at each value of L.

The first plot (heretofore labeled Fig 1), is of the solution to the KS equation. The flame height is represented by variation in color. The position along the front is plotted on the vertical axis, and the horizontal axis tracks time.

The next plot (Fig 2) created at each value of the domain size, L, was of a long trajectory using the same vector basis as Davidchack. The last plot (heretofore labeled Fig 3), is of the Fourier modes of the solution to the KS equation.

What follows is a collection of plots at values of L that gave results deemed interesting. Recall the definition of the periodic domain size and the "dimensionless system size"

Proceeding from lowest value of domain size:

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[1] K. Kassam and L. N. Trefethen;"Fourth-order time stepping for stiff PDEs", SIAM J. Sci. Comp.2004