When a liquid layer is laterally heated, the basic flow loses stability in the form of
hydrothermal waves. They can be visualized by means of the shadowgraph technique. The …

Thermal lens oscillations, and associated hot-wire experiments, pertain to a class of
instabilities produced when the free surface of a liquid is locally heated from below …

We study a convection problem in a container with a surface open to the air and heated by a
long wire placed at the bottom. Coupled buoyancy and thermocapillarity effects are taken …

We present an experimental parametric study of spanwise centrifugal instabilities in an open
cavity flow. We show that the mode selected at threshold depends on the cavity streamwise …

The influence of fluid depth in a convection problem in which heating is nonuniform is
studied. We consider a vessel that has at the bottom a temperature distribution which has …

We report experimental evidence of the route to spatiotemporal chaos in a large one-
dimensional array of hotspots in a thermoconvective system. As the driving force is …

The study and characterization of the diversity of spatiotemporal patterns generated when a
rectangular layer of fluid is locally heated beneath its free surface is presented. We focus on …

Recent results on one-dimensional patterns in locally heated experiments are presented. A
fluid layer is heated locally by a nearly one-dimensional heater, and subjected to both …

In this work we review localized structures appearing in thermo-convective experiments
performed in extended (large “aspect ratio”) fluid layers. After a brief general review (not …

We present new experimental results on the quenching dynamics of an extended thermo-
convective system (a network array of approximately 100 convective oscillators) going …