Heteroclinic bifurcations in a simple model of double-diffusive convection

DOI10.1017/S0022112092004403zbMath0770.76061MaRDI QIDQ4017621

M. R. E. Proctor, Nigel Weiss, Edgar Knoblauch

Publication date: 16 January 1993

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

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear oscillations; phase space; two-dimensional thermosolutal convection; temporal chaos; complex fluid dynamical system; three- dimensional convection; truncated modal expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76R10: Free convection

35B32: Bifurcations in context of PDEs

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