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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 835-852出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-727X(03)00086-9
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thermal convection; vertical layer; pattern formation; transition to chaos; traveling-wave instability
We study both experimentally and numerically the convective flow in a tall vertical slot with differently heated walls. The flow is investigated for the fluid with the Prandtl number Pr = 26, which is large enough to ensure the traveling waves as primary instability and small enough to prevent boundary layer convection. The flow evolution is determined on the base of the visual observations, power spectra and amplitude analysis. In the numerical simulations of two- and three-dimensional flows, we accept an assumption of an infinite fluid layer. The satisfactory agreement with experiment is observed, and the sequence of convection states is discovered. It starts with a plane-parallel flow as primary solution, which becomes unstable to two counter-propagating waves. It is followed by a tertiary three-dimensional flow in the form of wavy traveling waves. As the Grashof number is increased even further, a chaotically oscillating cellular pattern consisting of the pieces of broken waves arises. The formation of a structure in the form of the vertical rolls chaotically modulated along axes concludes this complicated picture. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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