Extended Galerkin-Eckhaus method in nonlinear thermoconvection (Q2469325)

In this paper the authors extend the Galerkin-Eckhaus method in order to examine the behaviour of the free Rayleigh-Bénard and Marangoni-Bénard problems with heat-conducting boundaries. This extension consists in choosing appropriately the basis functions in which the unknowns are expanded. The main result of this paper establishes that in all thermoconvection problems, the Galerkin-Eckhaus method provides very good results, even for thresholds, provided the basis functions are appropriately chosen. Related results concerning the eigenfunctions of these operators are also established in the present paper.