Abstract
The effect of weak dissipation on chaotic scattering is relevant to situations of physical interest. We investigate how the fractal dimension of the set of singularities in a scattering function varies as the system becomes progressively more dissipative. A crossover phenomenon is uncovered where the dimension decreases relatively more rapidly as a dissipation parameter is increased from zero and then exhibits a much slower rate of decrease. We provide a heuristic theory and numerical support from both discrete-time and continuous-time scattering systems to establish the generality of this phenomenon. Our result is expected to be important for physical phenomena such as the advection of inertial particles in open chaotic flows, among others.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 016208 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Jul 2007 |
Keywords
- Hamiltonian-systems
- boundaries
- dynamics
- saddles
- motion
- sphere
- model