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Main Authors: Khan, Basheer Ahmad, Arogeti, Shai, Shoshani, Oriel, Yakhot, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08862
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  • Turbulent puffs in a pipe persist for a long time before abruptly transitioning to laminar flow through viscous exponential decay. Direct numerical simulation results reveal a saddle-node bifurcation sequence governing the final relaminarization stage. Specifically, a universal square-root scaling law in the annihilation of critical points that is indicative of a saddle-node bifurcation. The Riccati equation has been proposed as a straightforward approach to modeling these bifurcations.