OSCILLATING INSTABILITY IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION

Abstract
Collective periodic oscillations of the rolls' position are observed in experiments of Rayleigh-Bénard convection, when one of the horizontal extensions is smaller than the depth of the fluid layer (quasi one dimensional geometry). The oscillations are related to the presence of very short wavelengths and can lead directly to turbulent spatio temporal intermittencies, when the convection is achieved in an annular geometry