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The concept of predictability has been widely used throughout the preceding chapters, and is one of the major ingredients in our definition of turbulence. When turbulence is examined from the point of view of the “chaos” in dynamical systems, the predictability is studied by looking at the sign of the Liapounov exponent characterizing the separation between two figurative points initially very close in the phase space: a positive exponent means then an exponential separation, and implies loss of predictability.
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Lesieur, M. (1987). The Statistical Predictability Theory. In: Turbulence in Fluids. Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3545-7_11
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