Stability and chaotic characteristics of a wall plume

In this study artificial disturbances were introduced into a wall plume adjacent to a vertical side wall, and its stability and chaotic characteristics were experimentally examined. The main results are: (1) for high and low frequency disturbances the neutral region (a region between stability and instability) is lower and higher values of the modified Grashof number than an analytical neutral curve, respectively. (2) As the Grashof number increases, a chaotic fluctuation of temperature is observed above a critical value. This chaotic region is completely included in the region where the wall plume is unstable. (3) The flow can be classified into four regions based on patterns, a stable region, disturbance-amplification region, chaotic region and non-chaotic region.