A selection principle for Bénard-type convection

DOI10.1007/BF00250909zbMath0599.76043MaRDI QIDQ1080729

D. Sather, George H. Knightly

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

steady state solutionsconstrainthexagonal cellsselection principleBoussinesq problemBénard convection problemgeneralized Boussinesq problemstable subcritical solutionsvariational dissipation functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Free convection (76R10)

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