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Transition to Chaos of Buoyant-Thermocapillary Convection in Large-Scale Liquid Bridges

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To cooperate with the Chinese TG-2 space experiment project, the transition routes to chaos of buoyant-thermocapillary convection were experimentally researched in large-scale liquid bridge of 2cSt silicone oil with 20 mm in diameter. A Nanovoltmeter with high resolution was adopted to measure the dynamical temperature oscillations, as well as to detect the convective transitional behaviors which were nonlinear and non-stationary. The existence of the quasi-periodic route and the Feigenbaum route has been confirmed in large-scale LBs, and a novel periodic oscillation state was discussed in detail for the first time. The chaotic characteristics were verified by analyzing the maximum Lyapunov exponent and correlation dimension on the basis of a phase-space reconstruction. Additionally, it was found that bifurcation could potentially lead to the reconstruction of flow fields.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China

    Jia Wang, Di Wu, Li Duan & Qi Kang

  2. School of Engineering Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Li Duan & Qi Kang

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Wang, J., Wu, D., Duan, L. et al. Transition to Chaos of Buoyant-Thermocapillary Convection in Large-Scale Liquid Bridges. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 32, 217–227 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-019-09770-2

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