Localization and advectional spreading of convective currents under parametric disorder

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/09/P09027MaRDI QIDQ3301706zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Denis S. Goldobin, Elizaveta V. Shklyaeva

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3741

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19)

Abstract: We address a problem which is mathematically reminiscent of the one of Anderson localization, although it is related to a strongly dissipative dynamics. Specifically, we study thermal convection in a horizontal porous layer heated from below in the presence of a parametric disorder; physical parameters of the layer are time-independent and randomly inhomogeneous in one of the horizontal directions. Under such a frozen parametric disorder, spatially localized flow patterns appear. We focus our study on their localization properties and the effect of an imposed advection along the layer on these properties. Our interpretation of the results of the linear theory is underpinned by numerical simulation for the nonlinear problem. Weak advection is found to lead to an upstream delocalization of localized current patterns. Due to this delocalization, the transition from a set of localized patterns to an almost everywhere intense "global" flow can be observed under conditions where the disorder-free system would be not far below the instability threshold. The results presented are derived for a physical system which is mathematically described by a modified Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and therefore they are expected to be relevant for a broad variety of dissipative media where pattern selection occurs.

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