Rayleigh Bénard convection cells

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Rayleigh Bénard convection cells Photograph of a thin layer of vegetable oil mixed with aluminum powder and heated gently on a hotplate Bénard cells are convection cells that appear spontaneously in a liquid layer when heat is applied from below They can be obtained using a simple experiment first conducted by Henri Bénard a French physicist in 1900 The experiment illustrates the theory of dissipative structures

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Keywords: cells, chaos, convection, physics, rayleigh, énard