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Chaotic transitions of convection rolls in a rapidly rotating annulus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

A. C. Or
A. C. Or
Affiliation:
Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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Abstract

Drifting convection rolls in a rapidly rotating cylindrical annulus with conical endwalls exhibit different transitional modes to chaotic flows at different Prandtl numbers. Three transition sequences for Prandtl numbers 0.3, 1.0 and 7.0 are studied for a moderately large Coriolis parameter and a wavenumber near the critical value using an initial-value code. As the Rayleigh number increases, each transition sequence first leads to a vacillating flow, and then to an aperiodic flow, the route of which is Prandtl-number dependent. From the low Prandtl number to the high Prandtl number, the transitions take different routes of torus folding, period doubling, and mode-locking intermittency.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 261 , 25 February 1994 , pp. 1 - 19
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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