An investigation into what triggers flow reversals in thermal convection, especially in two-dimensional enclosures, explores whether it is due to the corner roll growth process or the core bulk region instabilities, and examines the effect of enclosure shape. Using direct numerical simulations, it is shown that the flow reversals are due to the core bulk region instabilities.
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Kar et al. (2020) studied this question.