Coherent Solutions and Transition to Turbulence in Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Parvathi Kooloth, David Sondak, Leslie M. Smith

For two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection, classes of unstable, steady solutions were previously computed using numerical continuation (Waleffe, 2015; Sondak, 2015). The `prim…