Weakly nonlinear states as propagating fronts in convecting binary mixtures

Citation:

Jay Fineberg, Steinberg, Victor , and Kolodner, Paul . 1990. “Weakly Nonlinear States As Propagating Fronts In Convecting Binary Mixtures”. Physical Review A, 41, Pp. 5743–5746. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.41.5743.

Abstract:

We present a picture of the weakly nonlinear time-dependent (blinking) traveling-wave state in the convection of binary mixtures as a propagating, spatially confined solution of coupled Landau-Ginzburg equations. Quantitative agreement with the measured slow oscillation frequency is found. In addition, a number of experimental observations regarding the blinking and confined states can be understood in this picture.
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