Mean flow in hexagonal convection: stability and nonlinear dynamics

Details Mean flow in hexagonal convection: stability and nonlinear dynamics Mean flow in hexagonal convection: stability and nonlinear dynamics

2001-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107058v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

33 pages, 20 figures. For better figures:http://astro.uchicago.edu/~young/hexmeandir

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00389-X

Weakly nonlinear hexagon convection patterns coupled to mean flow are investigated within the framework of coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations. The equations are in particular relevant for non-Boussinesq Rayleigh-B\'enard convection at low Prandtl numbers. The mean flow is found to (1) affect only one of the two long-wave phase modes of the hexagons and (2) suppress the mixing between the two phase modes. As a consequence, for small Prandtl numbers the transverse and the longitudinal phase instability occur in sufficiently distinct parameter regimes that they can be studied separately. Through the formation of penta-hepta defects, they lead to different types of transient disordered states. The results for the dynamics of the penta-hepta defects shed light on the persistence of grain boundaries in such disordered states.

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