Investigating the connection between complexity of isolated trajectories and Lagrangian coherent structures

It is argued that the complexity of fluid particle trajectories provides the basis for a new method, referred to as the Complexity Method (CM), for estimation of Lagrangian coherent structures in aperiodic flows that are measured over finite time intervals. The basic principles of the CM are explain...

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Main Authors: I. I. Rypina, S. E. Scott, L. J. Pratt, M. G. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-12-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/18/977/2011/npg-18-977-2011.pdf