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Mean values and non-periodic pressure in convection problems between plates or with stress-free boundaries

Burkhard J. Schmitt and Wolf von Wahl

Vol. 185 (1998), No. 2, 347–362
Abstract

When considering the Oberbeck-Boussinesq equations in an infinite layer it is mostly assumed that the pressure π is periodic in the plane, whereas the equations only require π to be periodic. We study here the influence the general admissible form of the pressure may have on the velocity field u below the onset of convection, a question which is closely connected with the mean flow. This is a vector field which depends on z only and which is given by the mean values of ux, uy, uz over the plane periodicity cell. — The mean value of u over the layer is constant under stress-free boundary conditions and periodic pressure. If this constant c is not 0 there is in most cases no longer an exchange of stability on the onset for the linearization around c. We study its spectrum on the onset.

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Received: 27 January 1997
Revised: 5 August 1997
Published: 1 October 1998
Authors
Burkhard J. Schmitt
RWTH Aachen
Lehrstuhl I für Mathematik
D-52056 Aachen
Germany
Wolf von Wahl
Department of Mathematics
University of Bayreuth
D-95440 Bayreuth
Germany