Numerical Studies of Pattern Formation in Convecting Flows
01 January 1987
The study of turbulent fluids usually brings to mind complicated time-dependent flows with a rich spatial structure evolving on many different time and length scales. These flows are characteristic of many practical physical and engineering problems in meteorology, aeronautics, chemical engineering, and plasma physics. However, most examples of these flows-as they occur naturally in the world around us or in industrial processes-are extremes of complexity that have resisted systematic theoretical and experimental understanding.