Transition from periodic to non-periodic oscillation observed in a mathematical model of bioconvection by motile micro-organisms

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(86)90046-1zbMath0586.92006MaRDI QIDQ1072473

Shin-ichi Fujita, Masataka Watanabe

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(86)90046-1

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equations; Boussinesq approximation; diffusion equation; Rayleigh number; periodic oscillation; Bénard convection; period-doubling bifurcations; Bioconvection; culture of motile micro-organisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D05: Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids

35K05: Heat equation

92C05: Biophysics

92B05: General biology and biomathematics

65N22: Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs

92F05: Other natural sciences (mathematical treatment)

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