A numerical study of the cusp catastrophe for Bénard convection in tilted cavities

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(84)90132-3zbMath0535.76093MaRDI QIDQ791399

K. Andrew Cliffe, K. H. Winters

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(84)90132-3

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditions; Rayleigh number; critical value; small perturbations; Bénard convection; cusp catastrophe; bifurcation in form of pitchfork; tilted cavities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76R10: Free convection

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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