Multistability and confined traveling-wave patterns in a convecting binary mixture
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 35 (6) , 2757-2760
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.2757
Abstract
A novel localized structure of traveling waves (TW’s) was observed at convection onset in ethanol-water mixtures. It is one of various possible flow patterns of TW’s which were observed. We find that for almost-one-dimensional cell geometry unique dynamics of transient behavior (in the form of two counterpropagating TW’s) can lead to various stable states.Keywords
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