Local and global transitions to chaos and hysteresis in a porous layer heated from below

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-245

  Vadasz, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chaos; Free convection; Lorenz equations; Weak turbulence

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHAOS THEORY; GALERKIN METHODS; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TURBULENCE;

ADOMIAN'S DECOMPOSITION METHOD; HOPF BIFURCATION; LORENZ EQUATION; NONLIENAR THEORY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CHAOS; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032700140     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006658726309     Document Type: Article

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