Extreme Events in an Active Fluid Medium
Abstract
We observe the emergence of extreme events in an active fluid involving two distinct chemical species that regulate active stress. One species is slow diffusing and the other is fast diffusing, and the growth of the fast-diffusing species is modelled using a nonlinear logistic term. We demonstrate the presence of extreme events in the temporal evolution of the concentrations, as well as in the spatial profile of the system,in regimes of merging-emerging soliton-like dynamics and spatio-temporal chaos, through analysis of the time-series, bifurcation diagrams, probability distribution functions of the concentration of the two species, return maps and distributions of inter-event intervals. Interestingly, we also find evidence of pronounced bunching of extreme events and super-extreme events in the slow chemical species in the soliton-like regime. We go on to systematically explore the dependence of the extreme event occurrences on the Péclet number and the strength of the nonlinear growth term, and find that the probability of extreme events increases after a critical Péclet number, while increasing the nonlinearity suppresses extreme events. Lastly, in order to gain further insight, we investigate a modified mode-truncated reduced order model comprising of coupled differential equations mimicking this active fluid system. We find that this reduced order model also exhibits extreme events whose emergence is correlated with a sudden expansion in attractor size due to a crisis arising from attractor collision.So these results demonstrate the existence of extreme events in an active fluid system, and are of potential relevance to biological phenomena where active transport plays an important role.
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BibTeX
@misc{das2026extreme,
title = {{Extreme Events in an Active Fluid Medium}},
author = {Joydeep Das and Abhishek Chaudhuri and Sudeshna Sinha},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.14334},
eprint = {2609.14334},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14334},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Extreme Events in an Active Fluid Medium
AU - Joydeep Das
AU - Abhishek Chaudhuri
AU - Sudeshna Sinha
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.14334
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14334
AB - We observe the emergence of extreme events in an active fluid involving two distinct chemical species that regulate active stress. One species is slow diffusing and the other is fast diffusing, and the growth of the fast-diffusing species is modelled using a nonlinear logistic term. We demonstrate the presence of extreme events in the temporal evolution of the concentrations, as well as in the spatial profile of the system,in regimes of merging-emerging soliton-like dynamics and spatio-temporal chaos, through analysis of the time-series, bifurcation diagrams, probability distribution functions of the concentration of the two species, return maps and distributions of inter-event intervals. Interestingly, we also find evidence of pronounced bunching of extreme events and super-extreme events in the slow chemical species in the soliton-like regime. We go on to systematically explore the dependence of the extreme event occurrences on the Péclet number and the strength of the nonlinear growth term, and find that the probability of extreme events increases after a critical Péclet number, while increasing the nonlinearity suppresses extreme events. Lastly, in order to gain further insight, we investigate a modified mode-truncated reduced order model comprising of coupled differential equations mimicking this active fluid system. We find that this reduced order model also exhibits extreme events whose emergence is correlated with a sudden expansion in attractor size due to a crisis arising from attractor collision.So these results demonstrate the existence of extreme events in an active fluid system, and are of potential relevance to biological phenomena where active transport plays an important role.
ER -