Amplitude equation near a polycritical point for the convective instability of a binary fluid mixture in a porous medium
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 27 (1) , 591-593
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.27.591
Abstract
An amplitude equation is derived for a binary fluid mixture in a porous medium, in the vicinity of the intersection point of the lines of stationary and oscillatory instabilities. This point represents an experimentally realizable example of a codimension-two bifurcation.Keywords
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