Order and chaos in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Details Order and chaos in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection Order and chaos in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

2009-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2917v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

26 pages, 10 figures

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A detailed study of the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in two-dimensions with free-slip boundaries is presented. Pseudo-spectral method has been used to numerically solve the system for Rayleigh number up to $3.3 \times 10^7$. The system exhibits various convective states: stationary, oscillatory, chaotic and soft-turbulent. The `travelling rolls' instability is observed in the chaotic regime. Scaling of Nusselt number shows an exponent close to 0.33. Studies on energy spectrum and flux show an inverse cascade of kinetic energy and a forward cascade of entropy. This is consistent with the shell-to-shell energy transfer in wave number space. The shell-to-shell energy transfer study also indicates a local energy transfer from one shell to the other.

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