a School of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32306, USA
b Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Abstract:
The results of direct numerical simulations of convection in a uniformly rotating vertical cylinder with no-slip boundary conditions are described, and used to study the dynamics associated with transitions between states with adjacent azimuthal wave numbers far from onset. In certain regimes a novel burst-like state is identified and described. A dynamical-systems explanation for this behavior is suggested.