Convection and chaos in fluids
This book describes some of the progress made in understanding the phenomena of various hydrodynamic instabilities for the past 30 years. Among them the exact results for the onset of Rayleigh-Benard convection are discussed. Approximate techniques like the amplitude equations and few-mode truncations are treated at length. The reviews of the routes to chaos in dynamical systems and the characteristics of the chaotic state are also discussed here. Finally, certain features of the Taylor Couette instability and the effect of parametric modulation on hydrodynamic instabilities are also included. This book also discusses the results at all stages of experiments. Contents: Onset of Convection: Rayleigh-Benard Geometry for Simple Fluids; Amplitude Equations; Few-Mode Truncation: Lorentz Model; Characteristics of Chaotic Behavior, Routes to Chaos; On Experiments; Thermohaline Systems; Onset of Convection; Binary Liquids; Nonlinear Effects; Taylor-Couette flow; Magnetohydrodynamic Convection; Modulated Systems.
- OSTI ID:
- 6507580
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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