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The 1996 Joint Spring Topology Conference and Southeast Dynamical Systems Conference
March 7-9, 1996
Ball State University
Muncie, IN, USA

Organizers
John Emert, Kerry Jones, Roger Nelson

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The Topology of Fluid Flow Past a Sequence of Cylinders
by
Judy Kennedy
University of Delaware
Coauthors: Celso Grebogi, Miguel Sanjuan, James Yorke

We use Lagrangian dynamics to construct a model of fluid flow past an infinite bisequence of cylinders. Our fluid flow takes place in the plane. The model is investigated first numerically, and then simpler models of the Poincaré return map (based on our observations of behavior of the flow) are explored from a rigorous and topological standpoint.

(This is joint work with Celso Grebogi, Miguel Sanjuan, and James Yorke, all of the University of Maryland.)

Date received: February 14, 1996

Copyright © 1996 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # caab-82.