East European Journal of Physics (Jun 2015)

STATE FUNCTION IN UNSTABLE CONVECTIVE MEDIUM

  • I. V. Gushchin,
  • A. V. Kirichok,
  • V. M. Kuklin

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 32 – 35

Abstract

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Convection in a thin layer of liquid (gas) with temperature independent viscosity between poorly heat conducting boundaries is studied within framework of the Proctor-Sivashinsky model. We have shown by numerical simulation of the Proctor-Sivashinsky model that the state with certain topology can be described by the state function, which is the sum of squared mode of temperature spatial spectrum on the surface. The transitions between these states are characterized by splashes in time-derivative of this function and different meta-stable structures, corresponding to different values of the state function have different visually distinguishable topologies.