A blue sky catastrophe in double-diffusive convection
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
A global bifurcation of the blue sky catastrophe type has been found in a small Prandtl number binary mixture contained in a laterally heated cavity. The system has been studied numerically applying the tools of bifurcation theory. The catastrophe corresponds to the destruction of an orbit which, for a large range of Rayleigh numbers, is the only stable solution. This orbit is born in a global saddle-loop bifurcation and becomes chaotic in a period doubling cascade just before its disappearance at the blue sky catastrophe.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0405062,
title = {A blue sky catastrophe in double-diffusive convection},
author = {Esteban Meca and Isabel Mercader and Oriol Batiste and Laureano Ramirez-Piscina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0405062},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures, REVTeX, To be published in Physical Review Letters