Convection in a rotating cylindrical annulus. Part 2. Transitions to asymmetric and vacillating flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112087000144zbMath0619.76055MaRDI QIDQ3757573

A. C. Or, Friedrich H. Busse

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

thermal Rossby wavesperiod doubling sequencecolumnar convectionconvection columnsconvection flowsnon-symmetric convectionprimary solutionvacillating convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Diffusion and convection (76R99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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