Instabilities and Spatio-temporal Chaos of Long-wave Hexagon Patterns in Rotating Marangoni Convection

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2002-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0203054v1

Chaos 12 (2002) 706

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

26 pages, 9 jpeg figures. Postscript file with all figures included available at http://www.esam.northwestern.edu/~riecke/lit/

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1502585

We consider surface-tension driven convection in a rotating fluid layer. For nearly insulating boundary conditions we derive a long-wave equation for the convection planform. Using a Galerkin method and direct numerical simulations we study the stability of the steady hexagonal patterns with respect to general side-band instabilities. In the presence of rotation steady and oscillatory instabilities are identified. One of them leads to stable, homogeneously oscillating hexagons. For sufficiently large rotation rates the stability balloon closes, rendering all steady hexagons unstable and leading to spatio-temporal chaos.

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