A paper exploring the use of Lyapunov based diagnostics on the study of chaos in convection has been published in the journal Chaos. More details are given below:

R. Levanger, M. Xu, J. Cyranka, M. Schatz, K. Mischaikow, and M. R. Paul, Correlations between the leading Lyapunov vector and pattern defects for chaotic Rayleigh-Benard convection, Chaos, 29, 053103, (2019).