Temporal and spatial properties of fluctuations below a supercritical primary bifurcation to traveling oblique-roll electroconvection

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Scherer, Michael A ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; ELECTROCONVECTION; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; RELAXATION RATE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PREHEATING; SOLIDIFICATION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 41349112677     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.051101     Document Type: Article

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