Temporal chaos in Boussinesq magnetoconvection
- College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-8642 (Japan)
Two-dimensional Boussinesq magnetoconvection with idealized stress-free boundary conditions is numerically investigated in order to make clear the difference between chaos and turbulence. It is shown that the long-term behavior of magnetoconvection exhibits spatially coherent and temporally chaotic rolls in marked contrast to highly turbulent fluids. It is also shown that heat transport becomes larger anomalously when the polarity reversal of the magnetic field occurs intermittently in the case of temporally chaotic magnetoconvection. It is found that the Poincare return map of the relative maximum temperature fluctuation of partial differential equations as a function of the preceding maximum resembles the famous Lorenz plot in narrow rolls of magnetoconvection. The chaotic behavior of narrow rolls for individual parameter values robustly persists up to rolls about one fifth as wide as they are high near the codimension-two bifurcation point.
- OSTI ID:
- 20960094
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 14, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2430517; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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