Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2009-10-09
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
23 pages with 12 figures
Scientific paper
A low-dimensional model of large Prandtl-number ($P$) Rayleigh B\'{e}nard convection is constructed using some of the important modes of pseudospectral direct numerical simulations. A detailed bifurcation analysis of the low-dimensional model for $P=6.8$ and aspect ratio of $2\sqrt{2}$ reveals a rich instability and chaos picture: steady rolls, time-periodicity, quasiperiodicity, phase locking, chaos, and crisis. Bifurcation analysis also reveals multiple co-existing attractors, and a window with time-periodicity after chaos. The results of the low-dimensional model matches quite closely with some of the past simulations and experimental results where they observe chaos in RBC through quasiperiodicity and phase locking.
Paul Supriyo
Verma Mahendra K.
Wahi Pankaj
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