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Surface tension-driven convection patterns in two liquid layers
Anne Juel, John M. Burgess, W. D. McCormick +2
Two superposed liquid layers display a variety of convective phenomena that are inaccessible in the traditional system where the upper layer is a gas. We consider several pairs of…
Continuum-type stability balloon in oscillated granular layers
John R. de Bruyn, C. Bizon, M. D. Shattuck +3
The stability of convection rolls in a fluid heated from below is limited by secondary instabilities, including the skew-varicose and crossroll instabilities. We observe a stabilit…
Breathing Spots in a Reaction-Diffusion System
D. Haim, G. Li, Q. Ouyang +4
A quasi-2-dimensional stationary spot in a disk-shaped chemical reactor is observed to bifurcate to an oscillating spot when a control parameter is increased beyond a critical valu…
Hexagons, Kinks and Disorder in Oscillated Granular Layers
Francisco Melo, Paul Umbanhowar, Harry L. Swinney
Experiments on vertically oscillated granular layers in an evacuated container reveal a sequence of well-defined pattern bifurcations as the container acceleration is increased. Pe…
Onset of Surface-Tension-Driven Benard Convection
Michael F. Schatz, Stephen J. VanHook, William D. McCormick +2
Experiments with shadowgraph visualization reveal a subcritical transition to a hexagonal convection pattern in thin liquid layers that have a free upper surface and are heated fro…
Long-Wavelength Instability in Surface-Tension-Driven Benard Convection
Stephen J. Vanhook, Michael F. Schatz, William D. McCormick +2
Laboratory studies reveal a deformational instability that leads to a drained region (dry spot) in an initially flat liquid layer (with a free upper surface) heated uniformly from…