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Wall mode dynamics and transition to chaos in magnetoconvection with a vertical magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2023

Matthew McCormack
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
Andrei Teimurazov
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Olga Shishkina
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Moritz Linkmann*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
*
Email address for correspondence: moritz.linkmann@ed.ac.uk

Abstract

Quasistatic magnetoconvection of a fluid with low Prandtl number (${\textit {Pr}}=0.025$) with a vertical magnetic field is considered in a unit-aspect-ratio box with no-slip boundaries. At high relative magnetic field strengths, given by the Hartmann number ${\textit {Ha}}$, the onset of convection is known to result from a sidewall instability giving rise to the wall-mode regime. Here, we carry out three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of unprecedented length to map out the parameter space at ${\textit {Ha}} = 200, 500, 1000$, varying the Rayleigh number (${\textit {Ra}}$) over the range $6\times 10^5 \lesssim {\textit {Ra}} \lesssim 5\times 10^8$. We track the development of stable equilibria produced by this primary instability, identifying bifurcations leading to limit cycles and eventually to chaotic dynamics. At ${\textit {Ha}}=200$, the steady wall-mode solution undergoes a symmetry-breaking bifurcation producing a state that features a coexistence between wall modes and a large-scale roll in the centre of the domain, which persists to higher ${\textit {Ra}}$. However, under a stronger magnetic field at ${\textit {Ha}}=1000$, the steady wall-mode solution undergoes a Hopf bifurcation producing a limit cycle which further develops to solutions that shadow an orbit homoclinic to a saddle point. Upon a further increase in ${\textit {Ra}}$, the system undergoes a subsequent symmetry break producing a coexistence between wall modes and a large-scale roll, although the large-scale roll exists only for a small range of ${\textit {Ra}}$, and chaotic dynamics primarily arise from a mixture of chaotic wall-mode dynamics and arrays of cellular structures.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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