title: Traveling waves in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.
abstract: A combined analytical, numerical, and experimental study of the traveling-wave wall mode in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection is presented. No-slip top and bottom boundary conditions are used for the numerical computation of the linear stability, and the coefficients of the linear complex Ginzburg-Landau equation are then computed for various rotation rates. Numerical results for the no-slip boundary conditions are compared with free-slip calculations and with experimental data, and detailed comparison is made at a dimensionless rotation rate Omega=274. It is found that the inclusion of the more realistic no-slip boundary conditions for the top and bottom surfaces brings the numerical linear stability analysis into better agreement with the experimental data compared with results using free-slip top/bottom boundary conditions. Some remaining discrepancies may be accounted for by the finite conductivity of the sidewall boundaries.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Division, and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: Wooyoung
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Dilip
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Camassa
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Ecke