Rotating Leaks in the Stadium Billiard
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Author(s)
Appelbe, BD
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The open stadium billiard has a survival probability,
P
(
t
), that depends on the rate of
escape of particles through the leak. It is known that the decay of
P
(
t
) is exponential
early in time while for long times the decay follows a power law. In this work we
investigate an open stadium billiard in which the leak is free to rotate around the
boundary of the stadium at a constant velocity,
ω
. It is found that
P
(
t
) is very
sensitive to
ω
. For certain
ω
values
P
(
t
) is purely exponential while for other values
the power law behaviour at long times persists. We identify three ranges of
ω
values
corresponding to three different responses of
P
(
t
). It is shown that these variations in
P
(
t
) are due to the interaction of the moving leak with Marginally Unstable Periodic
Orbits (MUPOs).
P
(
t
), that depends on the rate of
escape of particles through the leak. It is known that the decay of
P
(
t
) is exponential
early in time while for long times the decay follows a power law. In this work we
investigate an open stadium billiard in which the leak is free to rotate around the
boundary of the stadium at a constant velocity,
ω
. It is found that
P
(
t
) is very
sensitive to
ω
. For certain
ω
values
P
(
t
) is purely exponential while for other values
the power law behaviour at long times persists. We identify three ranges of
ω
values
corresponding to three different responses of
P
(
t
). It is shown that these variations in
P
(
t
) are due to the interaction of the moving leak with Marginally Unstable Periodic
Orbits (MUPOs).
Date Issued
2016-11-04
Date Acceptance
2016-10-21
Citation
Chaos, 2016, 26
ISSN
1089-7682
Publisher
AIP Publishing
Journal / Book Title
Chaos
Volume
26
Copyright Statement
© 2016 The Author. Published by AIP Publishing.
Subjects
Fluids & Plasmas
0102 Applied Mathematics
0103 Numerical And Computational Mathematics
0299 Other Physical Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 113104