Mean flow and spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection

Details Mean flow and spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection Mean flow and spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection

2002-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0212018v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

14 pages, 19 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.67.056206

We describe a numerical procedure to construct a modified velocity field that does not have any mean flow. Using this procedure, we present two results. Firstly, we show that, in the absence of mean flow, spiral defect chaos collapses to a stationary pattern comprising textures of stripes with angular bends. The quenched patterns are characterized by mean wavenumbers that approach those uniquely selected by focus-type singularities, which, in the absence of mean flow, lie at the zig-zag instability boundary. The quenched patterns also have larger correlation lengths and are comprised of rolls with less curvature. Secondly, we describe how mean flow can contribute to the commonly observed phenomenon of rolls terminating perpendicularly into lateral walls. We show that, in the absence of mean flow, rolls begin to terminate into lateral walls at an oblique angle. This obliqueness increases with Rayleigh number.

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