Diffusion induced chaos in a closed loop thermosyphon

The dynamics of a closed loop thermosyphon are considered. The model assumes a prescribed heat flux along the loop wall and the contribution of axial diffusion. The well-posedness of the model which consists of a coupled ODE and PDE is shown for both the case with diffusion and without diffusion. Bo...

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Autores: Rodríguez Bernal, Aníbal, Van Vleck, Erik S.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1998
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/57838
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57838
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:517.986
Natural convection
Asymptotic behavior
Inertial manifold
Three mode models
Five mode models
Thermosiphon
Dynamics
Funciones (Matemáticas)
1202 Análisis y Análisis Funcional
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Sumario:The dynamics of a closed loop thermosyphon are considered. The model assumes a prescribed heat flux along the loop wall and the contribution of axial diffusion. The well-posedness of the model which consists of a coupled ODE and PDE is shown for both the case with diffusion and without diffusion. Boundedness of solutions, the existence of an attractor, and an inertial manifold is proven, and an exact reduction to a low-dimensional model is obtained for the diffusion case. The reduced systems may have far fewer degrees of freedom than the reduction to the inertial manifold. For the three mode models, equivalence with the classical Lorenz equations is shown. Numerical results are presented for five mode models.