Transient localized states in 2D binary liquid convection

Transient localized states in 2D binary liquid convection.

We report an experimental study of the onset of convection in ethanol-water mixtures con ned in a circular cell of radial aspect ratio 11.6. The initial bifurcation was to radial traveling waves; however, the linear state typically gave way to a nonlinear one in which convection alternately focused along one cell diameter and then another roughly perpendicular to the rst. After a number of cycl...

Spatially localized states in Marangoni convection in binary mixtures

Two-dimensional Marangoni convection in binary mixtures is studied in periodic domains with large spatial period in the horizontal. For negative Soret coefficients convection may set in via growing oscillations which evolve into standing waves. With increasing amplitude these waves undergo a transition to traveling waves, and then to more complex waveforms. Out of this state emerge stable stati...

Homoclinic snaking of localized states in doubly diffusive convection

Spatially localized states in natural doubly diffusive convection

Numerical continuation is used to compute a multiplicity of stable spatially localized steady states in doubly diffusive convection in a vertical slot driven by imposed horizontal temperature and concentration gradients. The calculations focus on the so-called opposing case, in which the imposed horizontal thermal and solutal gradients are in balance. No-slip boundary conditions are used at the...

Transient 2D-IR spectroscopy of inorganic excited states.

Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool for investigating the structure, dynamics and reactivity of electronically-excited states of inorganic molecules. As applications drive the production of ever more complex molecules however, experimental tools that can deliver more detailed spectroscopic information, or separate multiple contributions to complex signals w...