Critical phenomena employed in hydrodynamic problems: A case study of Rayleigh-Benard convection

Michel Assenheimer (1) , Victor Steinberg (Department of Physics of Complex Systems , Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot , Israel; (1) Present address: Laboratoire de Physique Statistique , Ecole Normale Superieure , Paris , France)

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By virtue of Rayleigh-Benard convection, we illustrate the advantages of combining a hydrodynamic pattern forming instability with a thermodynamic critical point. This has already lead to many novel unexpected observations and is further shown to possess opportunities for the study of exciting fundamental problems in nonequilibrium systems.

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Critical phenomena employed in hydrodynamic problems: A case study of Rayleigh-Benard convection

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