Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Invariant states in inclined layer convection. Part 2. Bifurcations and connections between branches of invariant states
 
research article

Invariant states in inclined layer convection. Part 2. Bifurcations and connections between branches of invariant states

Reetz, Florian  
•
Subramanian, Priya
•
Schneider, Tobias M.  
September 10, 2020
Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Convection in a layer inclined against gravity is a thermally driven non-equilibrium system, in which both buoyancy and shear forces drive spatio-temporally complex flows. As a function of the strength of thermal driving and the angle of inclination, a multitude of convection patterns is observed in experiments and numerical simulations. Several observed patterns have been linked to exact invariant states of the fully nonlinear three-dimensional Oberbeck-Boussinesq equations. These exact equilibria, travelling waves and periodic orbits reside in state space and, depending on their stability properties, are transiently visited by the dynamics or act as attractors. To explain the dependence of observed convection patterns on control parameters, we study the parameter dependence of the state space structure. Specifically, we identify the bifurcations that modify the existence, stability and connectivity of invariant states. We numerically continue exact invariant states underlying spatially periodic convection patterns at under changing control parameters for a temperature difference between the walls and inclination angle. The resulting state branches cover various inclinations from horizontal layer convection to vertical layer convection and beyond. The collection of all computed branches represents an extensive bifurcation network connecting 16 different invariant states across control parameter values. Individual bifurcation structures are discussed in detail and related to the observed complex dynamics of individual convection patterns. Together, the bifurcations and associated state branches indicate at what control parameter values which invariant states coexist. This provides a nonlinear framework to explain the multitude of complex flow dynamics arising in inclined layer convection.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1017/jfm.2020.318
Web of Science ID

WOS:000546330100001

Author(s)
Reetz, Florian  
Subramanian, Priya
Schneider, Tobias M.  
Date Issued

2020-09-10

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published in
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Volume

898

Start page

A23

Subjects

Mechanics

•

Physics, Fluids & Plasmas

•

Physics

•

pattern formation

•

bifurcation

•

natural-convection

•

3-dimensional convection

•

fluid

•

transition

•

turbulence

•

instabilities

•

stability

•

rolls

•

routes

•

chaos

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
ECPS  
Available on Infoscience
July 23, 2020
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/170294
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés