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Volume 112, Number 1, October 2015
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| Article Number | 14001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/14001 | |
| Published online | 14 October 2015 | |
Route to hyperchaos in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
1 Aeronautics Institute of Technology - São José dos Campos, São Paulo 12228-900, Brazil
2 National Institute for Space Research and World Institute for Space Environment Research P.O. Box 515, São José dos Campos, São Paulo 12227-010, Brazil
Received: 1 June 2015
Accepted: 24 September 2015
Transition to hyperchaotic regimes in Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a square periodicity cell is studied by three-dimensional numerical simulations. By fixing the Prandtl number at 
and varying the Rayleigh number as a control parameter, a bifurcation diagram is constructed where a route to hyperchaos involving quasiperiodic regimes with two and three incommensurate frequencies, multistability, chaotic intermittent attractors and a sequence of boundary and interior crises is shown. The three largest Lyapunov exponents exhibit a linear scaling with the Rayleigh number and are positive in the final hyperchaotic attractor. Thus, a route to weak turbulence is found.
PACS: 47.52.+j – Chaos in fluid dynamics / 47.20.Bp – Buoyancy-driven instabilities (e.g., Rayleigh-Benard) / 47.27.ed – Dynamical systems approaches
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