Chaotic travelling rolls in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-82

  Paul, Supriyo ^a   Kumar, Krishna ^b   Verma, Mahendra K ^a   Carati, Daniele ^c   De, Arnab K ^a   Eswaran, Vinayak ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Convection; Direct numerical simulation; Travelling rolls instability

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ FLUIDS; CONDUCTING PLATES; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; FLOW REVERSALS; FREE-SLIP; IMAGINARY PARTS; LATERAL SHIFTS; NO-SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; ROLL AXIS; SHOW THROUGH; VELOCITY FIELD;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

EID: 76949108862     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12043-010-0009-8     Document Type: Article

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