A Hopf/steady-state mode interaction in rotating convection: Bursts and heteroclinic cycles in a square periodic domain (Q5930192)

The author of this paper studies the dynamics generated by an interaction of steady and oscillatory modes. He investigates the transition between oscillatory and steady convection at onset in low Prandtl number rotation convection in a plane layer. The author constructs the normal form and computes the normal form from coefficients for this codimension-2 bifurcation directly from the PDEs for Boussinesq rotating convection with stress-free upper and lower boundaries.