A side wall effect on the convective motion is studied to explain temporal behaviors of the Bénard cell pattern in case of small aspect ratio. Though the slip boundary condition is adopted, it is shown that an interplay between successively bifurcating modes can cause the observed phenomena.
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H. Kidachi (1980) studied this question.
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