Competition between Spiral-Defect Chaos and Rolls in Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Details Competition between Spiral-Defect Chaos and Rolls in Rayleigh-Benard Convection Competition between Spiral-Defect Chaos and Rolls in Rayleigh-Benard Convection

1997-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9702004v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

9 pages(RevTeX), 5 jpg figures, To appear as Rapid Communication in PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.55.R4869

We present experimental results for pattern formation in Rayleigh-Benard convection of a fluid with a Prandtl number, Pr~ 4. We find that the spiral-defect-chaos (SDC) attractor which exists for Pr~1 has become unstable. Gradually increasing the temperature difference from below to well above its critical value no longer leads to SDC. A sudden jump of temperature difference from below to above onset causes convection to grow from thermal fluctuations and does yield SDC. However, the SDC is a transient; it coarsens and forms a single cell-filling spiral which then drifts toward the cell wall and disappears.

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