@article{ISI:000228245700036,
 abstract = {With a view to understanding the ``rheochaos″ observed in recent
experiments in a variety of orientable fluids, we study numerically the
equations of motion of the spatiotemporal evolution of the traceless
symmetric order parameter of a sheared nematogenic fluid. In particular
we establish, by decisive numerical tests, that the irregular
oscillatory behavior seen in a region of parameter space where the
nematic is not stably flow-aligning is in fact spatiotemporal chaos. We
outline the dynamical phase diagram of the model and study the route to
the chaotic state. We find that spatiotemporal chaos in this system sets
in via a regime of spatiotemporal intermittency, with a power-law
distribution of the widths of laminar regions, as in H. Chate and P.
Manneville, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 112 (1987). Further, the evolution of
the histogram of band sizes shows a growing length scale as one moves
from the chaotic towards the flow-aligned phase. Finally we suggest
possible experiments in which one can observe the intriguing behaviors
discussed here.},
 article-number = {021707},
 author = {Das, M and Chakrabarti, B and Dasgupta, C and Ramaswamy, S and Sood, AK},
 doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021707},
 eissn = {1550-2376},
 issn = {1539-3755},
 journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW E},
 month = {FEB},
 number = {2, 1},
 orcid-numbers = {Dasgupta, Chandan/0000-0002-0302-1881
Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya/0000-0003-2699-4157},
 times-cited = {35},
 title = {Routes to spatiotemporal chaos in the rheology of nematogenic fluids},
 unique-id = {ISI:000228245700036},
 volume = {71},
 year = {2005}
}