Projecting low and extensive dimensional chaos from spatio-temporal dynamics

Ananthakrishna, G and Sarmah, R (2013) Projecting low and extensive dimensional chaos from spatio-temporal dynamics. In: European Physical Journal Special Topics, 222 (3-4). pp. 799-812.

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Abstract

We review the spatio-temporal dynamical features of the Ananthakrishna model for the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect, a kind of plastic instability observed under constant strain rate deformation conditions. We then establish a qualitative correspondence between the spatio-temporal structures that evolve continuously in the instability domain and the nature of the irregularity of the scalar stress signal. Rest of the study is on quantifying the dynamical information contained in the stress signals about the spatio-temporal dynamics of the model. We show that at low applied strain rates, there is a one-to-one correspondence with the randomly nucleated isolated bursts of mobile dislocation density and the stress drops. We then show that the model equations are spatio-temporally chaotic by demonstrating the number of positive Lyapunov exponents and Lyapunov dimension scale with the system size at low and high strain rates. Using a modified algorithm for calculating correlation dimension density, we show that the stress-strain signals at low applied strain rates corresponding to spatially uncorrelated dislocation bands exhibit features of low dimensional chaos. This is made quantitative by demonstrating that the model equations can be approximately reduced to space independent model equations for the average dislocation densities, which is known to be low-dimensionally chaotic. However, the scaling regime for the correlation dimension shrinks with increasing applied strain rate due to increasing propensity for propagation of the dislocation bands. The stress signals in the partially propagating to fully propagating bands turn to have features of extensive chaos.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	European Physical Journal Special Topics
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2013 17:31
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2013 17:31
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47209

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