Instability of swirl in low-Prandtl-number thermal convection

DOI10.1017/S0022112088001065zbMath0642.76063MaRDI QIDQ3783723

J. M. Massaguer, Isabel Mercader

Publication date: 1988

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

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf bifurcationperiodic oscillationssubharmonic bifurcationsfinite-amplitude instabilitylow-Prandtl-number thermal convectionhexagonal planformhighly truncated modal approachtypes of periodic solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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