Transition from periodic to chaotic thermal convection

DOI10.1017/S0022112082002122zbMath0496.76044OpenAlexW2109333380MaRDI QIDQ3960345

John B. McLaughlin, Steven A. Orszag

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082002122

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq equationsthree-dimensionaltime-dependentsymmetry-breaking perturbationslayer of air bounded by rigid conducting wallsRayleigh numbers larger than 9000transition to chaotic convectiontransition to turbulence in Benard convectionwavy instability of rolls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Turbulence (76F99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Occurrence of strange Axiom A attractors near quasi periodic flows on \(T^m\), \(m\geq 3\)
• On the nature of turbulence
• Transition to time-dependent convection
• Numerical simulation of three-dimensional Bénard convection in air
• Numerical solutions of single-mode convection equations
• Accurate solution of the Orr–Sommerfeld stability equation

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