Nonlinear Regimes of Electric Convection of Poorly Conducting Fluids in Weightlessness at Low Frequencies of an Electric Field

Electrothermal convection in a poorly conducting fluid in an alternating electric field of a horizontal capacitor is studied. The nonlinear regimes of electric convection in weightlessness are studies at low frequencies of the electric field on the basis of the pentamodal model within the framework of the electroconductive charge formation mechanism. Hysteresis transitions between two different synchronous and subharmonic regimes are found to exist. Transitions to chaos occur by means of either interemittance or a subharmonic cascade.