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Houghton, S.M. and Knobloch, E. (2009) Homoclinic snaking in bounded domains. Physical Review E, 80 (2). Art. No. 026210. ISSN 1539-3755
Abstract
Homoclinic snaking is a term used to describe the back and forth oscillation of a branch of time-independent spatially localized states in a bistable, spatially reversible system as the localized structure grows in length by repeatedly adding rolls on either side. On the real line this process continues forever. In finite domains snaking terminates once the domain is filled but the details of how this occurs depend critically on the choice of boundary conditions. With periodic boundary conditions the snaking branches terminate on a branch of spatially periodic states. However, with non-Neumann boundary conditions they turn continuously into a large amplitude filling state that replaces the periodic state. This behavior, shown here in detail for the Swift-Hohenberg equation, explains the phenomenon of “snaking without bistability”, recently observed in simulations of binary fluid convection by Mercader, Batiste, Alonso and Knobloch (preprint).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in "Physical Review E". Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Applied Mathematics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/D032334/1 NSF DMS-0605238 |
Depositing User: | Dr S M Houghton |
Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2009 13:15 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2013 16:59 |
Published Version: | http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v80/e026210 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.026210 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:9217 |
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