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Strongly nonlinear convection in binary fluids: Minimal model for extended states using symmetry decomposed modes

St. Hollinger, M. Luecke

patt-solarXiv:patt-sol/9707006

Abstract

Spatially extended stationary and traveling states in the strongly nonlinear regime of convection in layers of binary fluid mixtures heated from below are described by a few-mode-model. It is derived from the proper hydrodynamic balance equations including experimentally relevant boundary conditions with a non-standard Galerkin approximation that uses numerically obtained, symmetry decomposed modes. Properties of the model are elucidated and compared with full numerical solutions of the field equations.

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