Robust heteroclinic Cycles in Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-bÉnard convection without Boussinesq Symmetry

The onset of convection in systems that are heated via current dissipation in the lower boundary or that lose heat from the top boundary via Newton’s law of cooling is formulated as a bifurcation problem. The Rayleigh number as usually dened is shown to be inappropriate as a bifurcation parameter since the temperature dierence across the layer depends on the amplitude of convection and hence changes as convection evolves at xed external parameter values. A modied Rayleigh number is introduced that does remain constant even when the system is evolving, and solutions obtained with the standard formulation are compared with those obtained via the new one. Near the 1 : 2 spatial resonance in low Prandtl number fluids these eects open up intervals of Rayleigh number with no stable solutions in the form of steady convection or steadily traveling waves. Direct numerical simulations in two dimensions show that in such intervals the dynamics typically take the form of a nearly heteroclinic modulated traveling wave. This wave may be quasiperiodic or chaotic.

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