Steady-state Bifurcations of the Three-dimensional Kolmogorov Problem
Date
2000-08-30
Authors
Chen, Zhi-Min
Wang, Shouhong
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Southwest Texas State University, Department of Mathematics
Abstract
This paper studies the spatially periodic incompressible fluid motion in ℝ3 excited by the external force k2 (sin kz,0,0) with k ≥ 2 an integer. This driving force gives rise to the existence of the unidirectional basic steady flow u0 = (sin kz,0,0) for any Reynolds number. It is shown in Theorem 1.1 that there exist a number of critical Reynolds numbers such that u<sub>0</sub> bifurcates into either 4 or 8 or 16 different steady states, when the Reynolds number increases across each of such numbers.
Thanks to the Rabinowitz global bifurcation theorem, all of the bifurcation solutions are extended to global branches for λ ∈ (0, ∞). Moreover we prove that when λ passes each critical value, a) all the corresponding global branches do not intersect with the trivial branch (u0, λ), and b) some of them never intersect each other; see theorem 1.2.
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3D Navier-Stokes equations, Kolmogorov flow, Multiple steady states, Supercritical pitchfork bifurcation, Continuous fractions
Citation
Chen, Z. M., & Wang, S. (2000). Steady-state bifurcations of the three-dimensional Kolmogorov problem. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2000</i>(58), pp. 1-32.
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