Traveling-wave wall states in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
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- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 47 (4) , R2245-R2248
Abstract
We show that the wall-localized convection states observed in Rayleigh-Bénard convection in rotating cylindrical cells can be explained in terms of a geometry-independent traveling-wave wall state. We calculate the onset Rayleigh number, frequency, and wave number of such a state, as well as its amplitude equation. We also study the large-rotation-rate asymptotic behavior and the small-rotation-rate limit.Keywords
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