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Magnetohydrodynamic convectons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2011

David Lo Jacono ,
Alain Bergeon  and
Edgar Knobloch
David Lo Jacono*
Affiliation:
Université de Toulouse; INPT, UPS; IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse), Allée Camille Soula, F-31400 Toulouse, France CNRS; IMFT; F-31400 Toulouse, France
Alain Bergeon
Affiliation:
Université de Toulouse; INPT, UPS; IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse), Allée Camille Soula, F-31400 Toulouse, France CNRS; IMFT; F-31400 Toulouse, France
Edgar Knobloch
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: david.lojacono@imft.fr
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Abstract

Numerical continuation is used to compute branches of spatially localized structures in convection in an imposed vertical magnetic field. In periodic domains with finite spatial period, these branches exhibit slanted snaking and consist of localized states of even and odd parity. The properties of these states are analysed and related to existing asymptotic approaches valid either at small amplitude (Cox and Matthews, Physica D, vol. 149, 2001, p. 210), or in the limit of small magnetic diffusivity (Dawes, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 570, 2007, p. 385). The transition to standard snaking with increasing domain size is explored.

JFM classification

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Bifurcation MHD and Electrohydrodynamics: Magneto convection Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Pattern formation
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 687 , 25 November 2011 , pp. 595 - 605
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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