Doppler effect of nonlinear waves and superspirals in oscillatory media |
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Authors: | Brusch Lutz Torcini Alessandro Bär Markus |
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Institution: | MPI for Physics of Complex Systems, N?thnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Nonlinear waves emitted from a moving source are studied. A meandering spiral in a reaction-diffusion medium provides an example in which waves originate from a source exhibiting a back-and-forth movement in a radial direction. The periodic motion of the source induces a Doppler effect that causes a modulation in wavelength and amplitude of the waves ("superspiral"). Using direct simulations as well as numerical nonlinear analysis within the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, we show that waves subject to a convective Eckhaus instability can exhibit monotonic growth or decay as well as saturation of these modulations depending on the perturbation frequency. Our findings elucidate recent experimental observations concerning superspirals and their decay to spatiotemporal chaos. |
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