Published June 15, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Confined states of traveling-wave convection

  • 1. Department of Physics and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (USA)
  • 2. AT ampersand T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (USA)

Description

Spatially confined states of traveling-wave convection of arbitrary length are studied in ethanol-water mixtures contained in a narrow annular channel, a geometry that approximates a one-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions. The measured properties of these states, including the Rayleigh number at which they are observed, the frequency and wave number of the traveling waves, and the spatial variation of the amplitude and wave number, are in agreement with recent numerical calculations, leading to a microscopic understanding of these dynamical, nonequilibrium structures

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Journal Title
Physical Review, A
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
12
Series
Phys. Rev., A.
Journal Page Range
7101-7104
ISSN
0556-2791
CODEN
PLRAA