Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 36, Nos. 3/4, 1984. p. 367-400.
A one-parameter family of piecewise-linear discontinuous maps, which bifurcates from a periodic state of period m, (m = 2, 3,...) to an intermittent chaos, is studied as a new model for the onset of turbulence via intermittency. The onset of chaos of this model is due to the excitation of an infinite number of unstable periodic orbits and hence differs from Pomeau-Manneville's mechanism, which is a collapse of a pair of stable and unstable periodic orbits...