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Effects of a magnetic field on chaos for low Prandtl number convection in porous media

  • Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

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Abstract

The effects of a magnetic field on the route to chaos in a fluid-saturated porous layer were investigated based on the approach of dynamical systems. A low dimensional Lorenz-like model was obtained using Galerkin truncated approximation. The presence of a magnetic field helped delay the convective motion. The transition from steady convection to chaos via a Hopf bifurcation produced a limit cycle which may be associated with a homoclinic explosion at a slightly subcritical value of the Rayleigh number.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)905-917
Number of pages13
JournalNonlinear Dynamics
Volume62
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2010

Keywords

  • Chaos
  • Magnetic field
  • Weak turbulence

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