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Goldobin D. S. Localization of flows in a horizontal layer subject to randomly inhomogeneous heating. Izvestiya VUZ. Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, 2007, vol. 15, iss. 2, pp. 29-39. DOI: 10.18500/0869-6632-2007-15-2-29-39
Localization of flows in a horizontal layer subject to randomly inhomogeneous heating
We study localization of thermo-convective flows in a shallow horizontal layer subject to a fixed thermal flux across the layer, and the effect of advection on the localization properties. The thermal flux applied is stationary in time and randomly inhomogeneous in space (the problem considered is 2-D; the mean flux is nearly critical). The interpretation of linear results is underpinned by numerical simulation of the original nonlinear problem. The results presented in the article are relevant for thermal convection in a porous medium as well as for natural convection and some other hydrodynamical systems.
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