Meeting Abstracts
Transfer operator approach for finite-time coherent sets identification
Naratip Santitissadeekorn
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
(Abstract received 04/18/2012 for session A)
ABSTRACT
For many application areas, it is becoming important to understand transport mechanisms underlying time-dependentdynamical systems. In particular, it is interesting to identify coherent sets, which are minimally dispersive as moving with the flow and typically present important physical structures such as long-lived vortices in oceans or atmosphere. This presentation
will concentrate on a transfer operator approach for a finite-time coherent set identification. Few illustrative examples of its application in a geophysical model and atmospheric flow will be presented.