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Vorticity wave interaction and exceptional points in shear flow instabilities
Authors
Zhibin Guo
Cong Meng
Publication date
2 August 2023
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arXiv
Abstract
We establish a link between vorticity wave interaction and
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-symmetry breaking is the ratio between frequency detuning and coupling strength of the vorticity waves. The critical behavior near the exceptional point is described as a transition between phase-locking and phase-slip dynamics of the vorticity waves. The phase-slip dynamics lead to non-modal, transient growth of perturbations in the regime of unbroken
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shares the same critical exponent with the phase rigidity of system eigenvectors. The results can be readily extended to the interaction of multiple vorticity waves with multiple exceptional points and rich transient dynamics.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figure
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