Nature of Roll to Spiral-Defect-Chaos Transition

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1997-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9708002v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

11 pages, 7 figures, submitted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.57.1705

We investigate the nature of the parallel-roll to spiral-defect-chaos (SDC) transition in Rayleigh-Benard convection, based on the generalized Swift-Hohenberg model. We carry out extensive, systematic numerical studies by, on one branch, increasing the control parameter gradually from the parallel roll regime to the SDC regime and, on the other branch, decreasing it in the opposite manner. We find that the data of several time-averaged global quantities all form hysteretic loops from the two branches. We also discuss several possible scenarios for the transition and analyze our data for SDC accordingly. We conclude that the roll-to-SDC transition is first-order in character and that the correlation length diverges at the conduction to convection onset. We further postulate that this transition can be understood somewhat similar to the hexagon-to-roll transition in non-Boussinesq fluids. Finally we comment on the differences between our conclusion and those in two experiments.

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