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Pattern formation in annular convection

William F. Langford·Dan D. Rusu
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This study of spatio-temporal pattern formation in an annulus is motivated by two physical problems on vastly different scales. The first is atmospheric convection in the equatorial plane between the warm surface of the Earth and the cold tropopause, modeled by the two dimensional Boussinesq equations. The second is annular electroconvection in a thin semetic film, where experiments reveal the birth of convection-like vortices in the plane as the electric field intensity is increased. This is modeled by two dimensional Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a simplified version of Maxwell's equations. The two models share fundamental mathematical properties and satisfy the prerequisites for application of O(2)-equivariant bifurcation theory. We show this can give predictions of interesting dynamics, including stationary and spatio-temporal patterns.

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William F. Langford, Dan D. Rusu. 1998-06-05. Pattern formation in annular convection. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-4371(98)00373-2

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