Evidence for slow velocity relaxation in front propagation in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00689-9MaRDI QIDQ1851379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julien Kockelkoren, Cornelis Storm, Wim Van Saarloos

Publication date 16 December 2002

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111036

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic front speedPulled fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30)

Abstract: Recent theoretical work has shown that so-called pulled fronts propagating into an unstable state always converge very slowly to their asymptotic speed and shape. In the the light of these predictions, we reanalyze earlier experiments by Fineberg and Steinberg on front propagation in a Rayleigh-B'enard cell. In contrast to the original interpretation, we argue that in the experiments the observed front velocities were some 15% below the asymptotic front speed and that this is in rough agreement with the predicted slow relaxation of the front speed for the time scales probed in the experiments. We also discuss the possible origin of the unusually large variation of the wavelength of the pattern generated by the front as a function of the dimensionless control parameter.

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