Homology and symmetry breaking in Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Experiments and simulations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Krishan, Kapilanjan ^a,c   Kurtuldu, Huseyin ^a,c   Schatz, Michael F ^a,c   Gameiro, Marcio ^a,d   Mischaikow, Konstantin ^a,d   Madruga, Santiago ^b,e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW;

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION; TOPOLOGICAL ASYMMETRIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 36849069318     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2800365     Document Type: Article

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