scholarly journals Existence and nonlinear stability of convective solutions for almost compressible fluids in Bénard problem

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 113101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonino De Martino ◽  
Arianna Passerini
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Arianna Passerini

This paper shows the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic behavior in time of regular solutions (a la Ladyzhenskaya) to the Bénard problem for a heat-conducting fluid model generalizing the classical Oberbeck–Boussinesq one. The novelty of this model, introduced by Corli and Passerini, 2019, and Passerini and Ruggeri, 2014, consists in allowing the density of the fluid to also depend on the pressure field, which, as shown by Passerini and Ruggeri, 2014, is a necessary request from a thermodynamic viewpoint when dealing with convective problems. This property adds to the problem a rather interesting mathematical challenge that is not encountered in the classical model, thus requiring a new approach for its resolution.


This paper uses a novel ‘generalized energy’ to study the stabilizing effect of rotation in the Bénard problem. The nonlinear stability boundary we find is in very close agreement with the experiments of Rossby (Rossby, H. T. J . Fluid Mech . 36, 309–335 (1969)), who predicts sub-critical instabilities for high Taylor numbers for fluids with Prandtl number greater than or equal to 1, such as water.


Nonlinearity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 1677-1704
Author(s):  
Fei Jiang ◽  
Mengmeng Liu

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