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Title: Dynamics on the attractor for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10174640· OSTI ID:10174640
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  1. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Dept. of Mathematics

We present a numerical study of the large-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with periodic boundary conditions. Our parameters belong to the Benjamin-Feir unstable region. Our solutions start near a pure-mode rotating wave that is stable under sideband perturbations for the Reynolds number R ranging over an interval (R{sub sub},R{sub sup}). We find sub- and super-critical bifurcations from this stable rotating wave to a stable 2-torus as the parameter R is decreased or increased past the critical value R{sub sub} or R{sub sup}. As R > R{sub sup} further increases, we observe a variety of dynamical phenomena, such as a local attractor consisting of three unstable manifolds of periodic orbits or 2-tori cyclically connected by manifolds of connection orbits. We compare our numerical simulations to both rigorous mathematical results and experimental observations for binary fluid mixtures.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
10174640
Report Number(s):
ANL/MCS/PP-75712; ON: DE94016902
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1994]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English