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Chaotic Behaviour in a Non-Linear System: Turbulence in Rayleigh Benard Convection

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In this paper we will show that turbulent motions in confined convecting fluid are well understood in the frame of the theory of non-linear dynamical systems with a small number of degrees of freedom.

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Bergé, P. (1987). Chaotic Behaviour in a Non-Linear System: Turbulence in Rayleigh Benard Convection. In: Comte-Bellot, G., Mathieu, J. (eds) Advances in Turbulence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83045-7_8

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