TY - JOUR
T1 - Local and global transitions to chaos and hysteresis in a porous layer heated from below
AU - Vadasz, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wishes to thank the Foundation for Research Development (South Africa) for partially supporting this study through the Competitive Industry Research Grant (CIPM-GUN2034039).
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The routes to chaos in a fluid saturated porous layer heated from below are investigated by using the weak nonlinear theory as well as Adomian's decomposition method to solve a system of ordinary differential equations which result from a truncated Galerkin representation of the governing equations. This representation is equivalent to the familiar Lorenz equations with different coefficients which correspond to the porous media convection. While the weak nonlinear method of solution provides significant insight to the problem, to its solution and corresponding bifurcations and other transitions, it is limited because of its local domain of validity, which in the present case is in the neighbourhood of any one of the two steady state convective solutions. On the other hand, the Adomian's decomposition method provides an analytical solution to the problem in terms of infinite power series. The practical need to evaluate numerical values from the infinite power series, the consequent series truncation, and the practical procedure to accomplish this task transform the otherwise analytical results into a computational solution achieved up to a finite accuracy. The transition from the steady solution to chaos is analysed by using both methods and their results are compared, showing a very good agreement in the neighbourhood of the convective steady solutions. The analysis explains previously obtained computational results for low Prandtl number convection in porous media suggesting a transition from steady convection to chaos via a Hopf bifurcation, represented by a solitary limit cycle at a sub-critical value of Rayleigh number. A simple explanation of the well known experimental phenomenon of Hysteresis in the transition from steady convection to chaos and backwards from chaos to steady state is provided in terms of the present analysis results.
AB - The routes to chaos in a fluid saturated porous layer heated from below are investigated by using the weak nonlinear theory as well as Adomian's decomposition method to solve a system of ordinary differential equations which result from a truncated Galerkin representation of the governing equations. This representation is equivalent to the familiar Lorenz equations with different coefficients which correspond to the porous media convection. While the weak nonlinear method of solution provides significant insight to the problem, to its solution and corresponding bifurcations and other transitions, it is limited because of its local domain of validity, which in the present case is in the neighbourhood of any one of the two steady state convective solutions. On the other hand, the Adomian's decomposition method provides an analytical solution to the problem in terms of infinite power series. The practical need to evaluate numerical values from the infinite power series, the consequent series truncation, and the practical procedure to accomplish this task transform the otherwise analytical results into a computational solution achieved up to a finite accuracy. The transition from the steady solution to chaos is analysed by using both methods and their results are compared, showing a very good agreement in the neighbourhood of the convective steady solutions. The analysis explains previously obtained computational results for low Prandtl number convection in porous media suggesting a transition from steady convection to chaos via a Hopf bifurcation, represented by a solitary limit cycle at a sub-critical value of Rayleigh number. A simple explanation of the well known experimental phenomenon of Hysteresis in the transition from steady convection to chaos and backwards from chaos to steady state is provided in terms of the present analysis results.
KW - Chaos
KW - Free convection
KW - Lorenz equations
KW - Weak turbulence
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1006658726309
DO - 10.1023/A:1006658726309
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032700140
SN - 0169-3913
VL - 37
SP - 213
EP - 245
JO - Transport in Porous Media
JF - Transport in Porous Media
IS - 2
ER -