A finite-element study of the bénard problem using parameter-stepping and bifurcation search

DOI10.1002/FLD.1650040203zbMath0538.76081OpenAlexW2130826683MaRDI QIDQ3325343

K. H. Winters, C. P. Jackson

Publication date: 1984

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.1650040203

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationscritical Rayleigh numbercontinuationfinite-element methodBénard convectiondifferent boundary conditionscavity with rigid sidewallsheated uniformly from belowmonitoring determinant of Jacobian matrixnon- Boussinesq flownonlinear branchesparameter-steppingrigid, free, rigid or free horizontal boundary conditionwidth-to-height ratios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Natural convection at very high Rayleigh numbers ⋮ The use of symmetry in bifurcation calculations and its application to the Bénard problem ⋮ The onset of convection in a finite container due to surface tension and buoyancy ⋮ Finite element analysis of the stability of fluid motions ⋮ A finite element stability analysis for the Marangoni problem in a rectangular container with rigid sidewalls ⋮ A bifurcation study of laminar flow in a curved tube of rectangular cross-section ⋮ Modal exchange mechanisms in Lapwood convection ⋮ Bifurcation and stability analyses for a two-phase Rayleigh–Benard problem in a cavity ⋮ Finite element simulation of transient natural convection of low‐Prandtl‐number fluids in heated cavity ⋮ Time-dependent nodal integral methods in natural convection near a fluid density maximum

Cites Work

• The smooth transition to a convective régime in a two-dimensional box

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