A Deterministic Approach to Turbulence: Chaos in Rayleigh-Benard Convection,

Abstract

Rayleigh-Benard convection is one of the simplest instabilities. It is related to the case of a horizontal layer of a thermally expansive fluid which is confined above and below by rigid plates of good thermal conductivity, submitted to purely vertical adverse thermal gradient (adverse means 'heated from below'). Topics include: Basic concepts about dissipative dynamical systems; Towards deterministic turbulence or chaos; and Some experimental illustrations.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADP005797

Entities

People

  • P. Berge

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Conductivity
  • Convection
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Instability
  • Physical Properties
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.