Strongly interacting traveling waves and quasiperiodic dynamics in porous medium convection (Q1184318)

Buoyancy-driven convection in a square container of porous medium, related to Rayleigh-Bénard convection, is studied in the parameter regime (Rayleigh parameter) where periodic and quasiperiodic dynamics occur. It is shown to have a branch structure determined by simple pairwise interactions of traveling waves. The simultaneous existence of two separate branches of traveling waves (stable or unstable) distinguished by temporal and spatial character (frequency and wavenumber) leads to a connecting branch of quasiperiodic motions.