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Yuhai Tu
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A theoretical model for studying pattern formation in electroconvection is proposed in the form of a modified Swift-Hohenberg equation. A localized state is found in two dimension, in agreement with the experimentally observed ``worm state. The corresponding one dimensional model is also studied, and a novel stationary localized state due to nonadiabatic effect is found. The existence of the 1D localized state is shown to be responsible for the formation of the two dimensional ``worm state in our model.
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I argue that ``good mathematical models of spatio-temporal dynamics in two-dimensions require non-local operators in the nonlinear terms. Consequently, the often used Swift-Hohenberg equation requires modification as it is purely local. My aim here is to provoke more critical examination of the rationale for using the Swift-Hohenberg equations as a reliable model of the spatial pattern evolution in specific physical systems.
We show that all meromorphic solutions of the stationary reduction of the real cubic Swift-Hohenberg equation are elliptic or degenerate elliptic. We then obtain them all explicitly by the subequation method, and one of them appears to be a new elliptic solution.
We consider the one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation coupled to a conservation law. As a parameter increases the system undergoes a Turing bifurcation. We study the dynamics near this bifurcation. First, we show that stationary, periodic solutions bifurcate from a homogeneous ground state. Second, we construct modulating traveling fronts which model an invasion of the unstable ground state by the periodic solutions. This provides a mechanism of pattern formation for the studied system. The existence proof uses center manifold theory for a reduction to a finite-dimensional problem. This is possible despite the presence of infinitely many imaginary eigenvalues for vanishing bifurcation parameter since the eigenvalues leave the imaginary axis with different velocities if the parameter increases. Furthermore, compared to non-conservative systems, we address new difficulties arising from an additional neutral mode at Fourier wave number $k=0$ by exploiting that the amplitude of the conserved variable is small compared to the other variables.
Axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric patterns in the cubic-quintic Swift-Hohenberg equation posed on a disk with Neumann boundary conditions are studied via numerical continuation and bifurcation analysis. Axisymmetric localized solutions in the form of spots and rings known from earlier studies persist and snake in the usual fashion until they begin to interact with the boundary. Depending on parameters, including the disk radius, these states may or may not connect to the branch of domain-filling target states. Secondary instabilities of localized axisymmetric states may create multi-arm localized structures that grow and interact with the boundary before broadening into domain filling states. High azimuthal wavenumber wall states referred to as daisy states are also found. Secondary bifurcations from these states include localized daisies, i.e., wall states localized in both radius and angle. Depending on parameters, these states may snake much as in the one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation, or invade the interior of the domain, yielding states referred to as worms, or domain-filling stripes.
We investigate a number of complex patterns driven by the electro-convection instability in a planarly aligned layer of a nematic liquid crystal. They are traced back to various secondary instabilities of the ideal roll patterns bifurcating at onset of convection, whereby the basic nemato-hydrodynamic equations are solved by common Galerkin expansion methods. Alternatively these equations are systematically approximated by a set of coupled amplitude equations. They describe slow modulations of the convection roll amplitudes, which are coupled to a flow field component with finite vorticity perpendicular to the layer and to a quasi-homogeneous in-plane rotation of the director. It is demonstrated that the Galerkin stability diagram of the convection rolls is well reproduced by the corresponding one based on the amplitude equations. The main purpose of the paper is, however, to demonstrate that their direct numerical simulations match surprisingly well new experiments, which serves as a convincing test of our theoretical approach.
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