The dynamics of spatiotemporal modulations

The modulational instability of traveling waves is often thought to be a crucial point in the mechanism of transition to space-time disorder and turbulence. The aim of this paper is to study the effect of spatiotemporal modulations on some dynamics u(0)(x,t), which may occur as an instability process when a control parameter varies, for instance. We analyze the properties of the modulated dynamics of the form g(1)(x)g(2)(t)u(0)(x,t) compared to those of the reference dynamics u(0)(x,t), using operator theory. We show that, if the reference dynamics is invariant under some space-time symmetry in the sense of Ref. [J. Nonlinear Sci. 2, 183 (1992)], the modulation has the effect of either deforming this symmetry or breaking it, depending on whether the corresponding operator remains unitary or not. We also demonstrate that the smallest Euclidean space containing the modulated dynamics has a dimension smaller than or equal to the smallest Euclidean space containing u(0)(x,t). The previous results are then applied to the case of modulated uniformly traveling waves. While the spatiotemporal translation invariance of the wave never persists in the presence of a modulation, the existence of a spatiotemporal symmetry depends on the resonance of the Fourier sidebands due to the modulation. In case of nonresonance, a spatiotemporal symmetry exists and is explicitly determined. In this situation, the modulated wave and the carrier wave have the same spectrum (up to a normalization factor), the same entropy, and the spatial (resp., temporal) two-point correlation is deformed only by the spatial (resp., temporal) modulation. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.     

Solitary wave solutions of nonlocal sine-Gordon equations

In this paper a nonlocal generalization of the sine-Gordon equation, u(tt)+sin u=( partial differential / partial differential x) integral (- infinity ) (+ infinity )G(x-x('))u(x(') )(x('),t)dx(') is considered. We present a brief review of the applications of such equations and show that involving such a nonlocality can change features of the model. In particular, some solutions of the sine-Gordon model (for example, traveling 2pi-kink solutions) may disappear in the nonlocal model; furthermore, some new classes of solutions such as traveling topological solitons with topological charge greater than 1 may arise. We show that the lack of Lorenz invariancy of the equation under consideration can lead to a phenomenon of discretization of kink velocities. We discussed this phenomenon in detail for the special class of kernels G(xi)= summation operator (j=1) (N)kappa(j)e(-eta(j)mid R:ximid R:), eta(j)>0, j=1,2, em leader,N. We show that, generally speaking, in this case the velocities of kinks (i) are determined unambiguously by a type of kink and value(s) of kernel parameter(s); (ii) are isolated i.e., if c(*) is the velocity of a kink then there are no other kink solutions of the same type with velocity c in (c(*)- varepsilon,c(*)+ varepsilon ) for a certain value of varepsilon. We also used this special class of kernels to construct approximations for analytical and numerical study of the problem in a more general case. Finally, we set forth results of the numerical investigation of the problem with the kernel that is the McDonald function G(xi) approximately K(0)(mid R:ximid R:/lambda) (lambda is a parameter) that have applications in the Josephson junction theory. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.     

Bifurcations in distributed kinetic systems with aperiodic instability

Solutions to nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations which describe non-equilibrium systems of different physical nature, arising after the trivial solution has become unstable, are considered. It is demonstrated that in the case of the short-wave instability of the trivial state the primary bifurcation results in the appearance of spatially periodic quasiharmonic solutions, their stability being determined by the universal criterion. With further growth of the bifurcation parameter, two higher (secondary) bifurcations are revealed, one transforming the stationary solution into a travelling wave, the other one giving rise to “ripples” on its “crest”. In the case of the long-wave instability, stationary periodic solutions also arise, but, generally speaking, they are not quasiharmonic, and their stability criterion cannot be expressed in a universal form.     

Spatial separation of the traveling and evanescent parts of dipole radiation

Electric dipole radiation consists of traveling and evanescent plane waves. When radiation is detected in the far field, only the traveling waves will contribute to the intensity distribution, as the evanescent waves decay exponentially. We propose a method to spatially separate the traveling and evanescent waves before detection. It is shown that when the radiation passes through an interface, evanescent waves can be converted into traveling waves and can subsequently be observed in the far field. Let the radiation be observed under angle theta(t) with the normal. Then there exists an angle theta(ac) such that for 0 < or = theta(t) < theta(ac) all intensity originates in traveling waves, whereas for theta(ac) < theta(t) < pi/2 only evanescent waves contribute. It is shown that with this technique and under the appropriate conditions almost all far-field power can be provided by evanescent waves.     

Breather Solutions in Periodic Media

For nonlinear wave equations existence proofs for breathers are very rare. In the spatially homogeneous case up to rescaling the sine-Gordon equation \({\partial^2_t u = \partial^2_x u - \sin (u)}\) is the only nonlinear wave equation which is known to possess breather solutions. For nonlinear wave equations in periodic media no examples of breather solutions have been known so far. Using spatial dynamics, center manifold theory and bifurcation theory for periodic systems we construct for the first time such time periodic solutions of finite energy for a nonlinear wave equation

$ s(x) \partial^2_t u(x,t) = \partial^2_x u(x,t) - q(x) u(x,t)+ r(x)u(x,t)^3, $

with spatially periodic coefficients s, q, and r on the real axis. Such breather solutions play an important role in theoretical scenarios where photonic crystals are used as optical storage.

     

环形腔中激光振荡输出的横向斑图及向光学湍流的转变

在研究环形腔中激光振荡输出的分岔与混沌的基础上,采用耦合映象格子模型研究了其空间扩展系统的横向效应.数值模拟表明,随着参数的改变,空间扩展系统由均匀稳态、行波解向时空混沌演化.在一定的参数条件下,空间扩展系统从光场取入射平面波(均匀分布)开始,经对称破缺向光学湍流转变. 关键词： 横向斑图 时空混沌 湍流 数值模拟     

线性耦合Oregonator振子中的Echo波

给出了耦合Oregonator振子中的Echo波的存在条件及相应周期的精确表达式,并发现该系统中存在两种类型的Echo波,其中一种满足漂亮的关系式:x1(t)+x2(t)=2u+,z1(t)+z2(t)=2u+(这里u+是该系统的均匀正定态的一个分量). 关键词： 耦合Oregonator振子 Echo波 激励介质 相位     

Basin boundaries in asymmetric vibrations of a circular plate

In order to investigate further nonlinear asymmetric vibrations of a clamped circular plate under a harmonic excitation, we reexamine a primary resonance, studied by Yeo and Lee [Corrected solvability conditions for non-linear asymmetric vibrations of a circular plate, Journal of Sound and Vibration 257 (2002) 653-665] in which at most three stable steady-state responses (one standing wave and two traveling waves) are observed to exist. Further examination, however, tells that there exist at most five stable steady-state responses: one standing wave and four traveling waves. Two of the traveling waves lose their stability by Hopf bifurcation and have a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations leading to chaos. When the system has five attractors: three equilibrium solutions (one standing wave and two traveling waves) and two chaotic attractors (two modulated traveling waves), the basin boundaries of the attractors on the principal plane are obtained. Also examined is how basin boundaries of the modulated motions (quasi-periodic and chaotic motions) evolve as a system parameter varies. The basin boundaries of the modulated motions turn out to have the fractal nature.     

Abundant New Explicit Exact Soliton—Like Solutions and Painleve Test for the Generalized Burgers Equation in （2＋1）—Dimensional Space

We obtain Backlund transformation and some new kink-like solitary wave solutions for the generalized Burgers equation in (2 1)-dimensional space,ut 1/2(uδy^-1ux)x-uxx=0,by using the extended homogeneous balance method.As is well known,the introduction of the concept of dromions (the exponentially localized solutions in (2 1)-dimensional space)has triggered renewed interest in (2 1)-dimensional soliton systems.The solutions obtained are used to show that the variable ux admits exponentially localized solutions rather than the physical field u(x,y,t) itself.In addition,it is shown that the equation passes Painleve test.     

Nonlinear waves in nonequilibrium systems of the oscillatory type,part I

Nonlinear waves in mathematical models of nonequilibrium spatially uniform media with the oscillatory instability of the trivial state are considered. The models are based on the generalized Ginsburg-Landau equations. For the long-wave system, i.e. that described by two-component reaction-diffusion equations, we obtain the full stability conditions for monochromatic plane travelling waves. The basic part of the paper is devoted to the short-wave system which can be described by reaction-diffusion equations with not less than three components or by a two-component system with residual nonlocality. We construct the Ginsburg-Landau equation for this system, and we find its general quasistationary one-dimensional solution which is a travelling wave modulated by a travelling envelope wave. The stability of this solution is investigated with the especial emphasis on different important particular cases. The obtained results are compared with experimental observations of different waves on fronts of detonation and non-gaseous combustion (which also are characterized by the oscillatory short-wave instability of the trivial state), and the qualitative agreement between theoretical and experimental results is demonstrated.     

Variation of parameters in cosmology

Parameters which appear in the solutions of the dynamical equations of spatially homogeneous cosmology or in the dynamical equations themselves are subject to algebraic relations imposed by the constraint equations, i.e., are confined to a constraint hypersurface in parameter space. Values of these parameters off the constraint hypersurface often correspond to solutions which have an additional stiff perfect fluid source that may or may not be flowing orthogonally to the spatially homogeneous foliation or to a related inhomogeneous but spatially self-similar solution or to a combination of the two. These possibilities are studied and explicitly illustrated, leading to a uniform derivation of most of the known exact anisotropic spatially homogeneous or spatially self-similar solutions as well as some new ones.     

Hyperbolic asymptotics in Burgers' turbulence and extremal processes

Large time asymptotics of statistical solutionu(t,x) (1.2) of the Burgers' equation (1.1) is considered, whereξ(x)=ξ _L(x) is a stationary zero mean Gaussian process depending on a large parameterL>0 so that $$\xi _L (x) \sim \sigma _L \eta (x/L)(L \to \infty ),$$ where $\sigma _L = L^2 (2\log L)^{1/2} $ and η(x) is a given standardized stationary Gaussian process. We prove that asL→∞ the hyperbolicly scaled random fieldsu(L ²t, L²x) converge in distribution to a random field with “saw-tooth” trajectories, defined by means of a Poisson process on the plane related to high fluctuations of ξ(x), which corresponds to the zero viscosity solutions. At the physical level of rigor, such asymptotics was considered before by Gurbatov, Malakhov and Saichev (1991).     

Heteroclinic behavior in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

We investigate numerically the appearance of heteroclinic behavior in a three-dimensional, buoyancy-driven fluid layer with stress-free top and bottom boundaries, a square horizontal periodicity with a small aspect ratio, and rotation at low to moderate rates about a vertical axis. The Prandtl number is 6.8. If the rotation is not too slow, the skewed-varicose instability leads from stationary rolls to a stationary mixed-mode solution, which in turn loses stability to a heteroclinic cycle formed by unstable roll states and connections between them. The unstable eigenvectors of these roll states are also of the skewed-varicose or mixed-mode type and in some parameter regions skewed-varicose like shearing oscillations as well as square patterns are involved in the cycle. Always present weak noise leads to irregular horizontal translations of the convection pattern and makes the dynamics chaotic, which is verified by calculating Lyapunov exponents. In the nonrotating case, the primary rolls lose, depending on the aspect ratio, stability to traveling waves or a stationary square pattern. We also study the symmetries of the solutions at the intermittent fixed points in the heteroclinic cycle. Received 10 June 1999     

An unusual cosmological solution for λφ4 theory with broken symmetry

A particular solution to the Einstein equations is presented for an isotropic, spatially homogeneous and spatially flat space-time in the case that the matter field is that of a simple scalar ⁴ theory. The solution possesses unusual properties.     

Relation between the probability density and other properties of a stationary random process

We consider the Pope-Ching differential equation [Phys. Fluids A 5, 1529 (1993)] connecting the probability density p(x)(x) of a stationary, homogeneous stochastic process x(t) and the conditional moments of its squared velocity and acceleration. We show that the solution of the Pope-Ching equation can be expressed as n(x), where n(x) is the mean number of crossings of the x level per unit time and is the mean inverse velocity of crossing. This result shows that the probability density at x is fully determined by a one-point measurement of crossing velocities, and does not imply knowledge of the x(t) behavior outside of the infinitesimally narrow window near x.     

On Triply Periodic Wave Solutions for(2+1)-Dimensional Boussinesq Equation

By employing Hirota bilinear method and Riemann theta functions of genus one,explicit triply periodic wave solutions for the(2+1)-dimensional Boussinesq equation are constructed under the Backlund transformation u =(1 /6)(u0 1) + 2[ln f(x,y,t)] xx,four kinds of triply periodic wave solutions are derived,and their long wave limit are discussed.The properties of one of the solutions are shown in Fig.1.     

Painleve' analysis of a variable coefficient Sine-Gordon equation

In this paper we study a variable coefficient Sine-Gordon (vSG) equation given by theta(tt)-theta(xx)+F(x,t)sin theta=0 where F(x,t) is a real function. To establish if it may be integrable we have performed the standard test of Weiss, Tabor, and Carnevale (WTC). We have got that the (vSG) equation has the Painleve' property (Pp) if the function F(x,t) satisfies a well-defined nonlinear partial differential equation. We have found the general solution of this last equation and, consequently, the functions F(x,t) such that the (vSG) equation possesses the (Pp), are given by F(x,t)=F(1)(x+t)F(2)(x-t) where F(1)(x+t) and F(2)(x-t) are arbitrary functions. Using this last result we have obtained some particular solutions of the vSG equation. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.     

Lévy-Process Intrinsic Statistical Solutions of a Randomly Forced Burgers Equation

We consider Burgers equation forced by a brownian in space and white noise in time process \(\partial_{t}u+\frac{1}{2}\partial_{x}(u)^{2}=f(x,t)\), with \(E(f(x,t)f(y,s))=\frac{1}{2}(|x|+|y|-|x-y|)\*\delta(t-s)\) and we show that there exist intrinsic statistical solutions that are Lévy processes at any given positive time. We give the evolution equation for the characteristic exponent of such solutions; in particular we give the explicit solution in the case u ₀(x)=0.     

The dynamics of a generalized Heisenberg ferromagnetic spin chain

We introduce a generalized Heisenberg ferromagnetic spin chain with a four-dimensional target space, and investigate its continuous limit, the generalized continuous Heisenberg model (GCHM). We reduce the dynamics of the GCHM to a nonlinear evolution of space curves in four dimensions. The space curve evolution is expressed in terms of a system of coupled nonlinear equations for the three curvatures, k(1)(x),k(2)(x),k(3)(x), of a curve in R(4). Applying the Painleve analysis to the stationary equations, we conclude that GCHM, in general, is not integrable, unless k(1) is constant. We obtain explicit solutions of the resulting stationary system under the latter condition. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.