Corrections of the Eckhaus' stability criterion for one-dimensional stationary structures (Q1115710)

Two amendments to the well-known Eckhaus' stability criterion for small- amplitude nonlinear structures generated by weak instability of a spatially uniform state of a non-equilibrium one-dimensional system against small perturbations with finite wavelengths are obtained. Firstly, we evaluate small corrections to the main Eckhaus' term which, on the contrary to that term, do not have a universal form. Comparison of those non-universal corrections with experimental or numerical results gives a possibility to select a more relevant form of an effective nonlinear evolution equation. In particular, the comparison with such results for convective rolls and Taylor vortices gives arguments in favor of the Swift-Hohenberg equation. Secondly, we derive an analog of the Eckhaus criterion for systems degenerate in the sense that in an expansion of their nonlinear parts in powers of dynamical variables, the second and third degree terms are absent.