The occurrence of oscillatory solutions to the Bénard problem in the presence of horizontal temperature gradients is investigated as a function of Prandtl number and of the ratio of the applied vertical and horizontal gradients using a linear, mean field approximation. It is shown that in low Prandtl number fluids, even small horizontal gradients readily generate oscillatory modes.
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