Recent developments in Rayleigh-Benard convection

被引:784
作者
Bodenschatz, E [1 ]
Pesch, W
Ahlers, G
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Atom & Solid State Phys Lab, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] Univ Bayreuth, Inst Phys, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
[3] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[4] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Quantum Inst, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
关键词
thermal convection; pattern formation; spatio-temporal chaos; spirals; spiral-defect chaos; domain chaos; hexagons;
D O I
10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.709
中图分类号
O3 [力学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0801 ;
摘要
This review summarizes results for Rayleigh-Benard convection that have been obtained over the past decade or so. It concentrates on convection in compressed gases and gas mixtures with Prandtl numbers near one and smaller. In addition to the classical problem of a horizontal stationary fluid layer heated from below, it also briefly covers convection in such a layer with rotation about a vertical axis, with inclination, and with modulation of the vertical acceleration.
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