title: Gluing bifurcations in a dynamically complicated extended flow.
abstract: We report the results of the first experimental study of imperfect gluing bifurcations in an extended fluid flow. It is shown that the central features of the theory are robust and are appropriate to describe the dynamics of a nontrivial physical system. The results include the first experimental evidence for a route to chaos which is an essential part of the theory of imperfect gluing bifurcations.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abshagen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mullin