Rayleigh-benard Convection: Structures And Dynamics
eBook - PDF

Rayleigh-benard Convection: Structures And Dynamics

Structures and Dynamics

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rayleigh-benard Convection: Structures And Dynamics

Structures and Dynamics

About this book

This invaluable book presents a concise but systematic account of the formation of spatial flow structures in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below. Flows of this type, known as Rayleigh-Bénard convection, show important features of behaviour inherent not only in various hydrodynamic-instability phenomena but also in nonlinear pattern-forming processes in other contexts. The book describes the basic methods of investigating convection patterns, and the types of two- and three-dimensional flows, pattern defects, and sequences of convection-regime changes.The author pays special attention to the question of how various factors (mainly reducible to initial and boundary conditions) determine the shapes and sizes of the structures which develop. In this way, the role of order and disorder in flow patterns, as a factor strongly affecting the character of the evolution of structures, is revealed. The presentation emphasizes the physical picture of these phenomena, without excessive mathematical detail.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
  3. CHAPTER 2 BASIC CONCEPTS
  4. CHAPTER 3 INVESTIGATION TOOLS
  5. CHAPTER 4 BASIC TYPES OF CONVECTIVE-FLOW STRUCTURES
  6. CHAPTER 5 CONVECTION REGIMES
  7. CHAPTER 6 SELECTION OF THE WAVENUMBERS OF CONVECTION ROLLS
  8. CHAPTER 7 PECULIARITIES OF STRATIFICATION AND VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF CONVECTION
  9. CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION
  10. REFERENCES
  11. SUBJECT INDEX