Pattern formation in the wake of triggered pushed fronts

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/29/8/2196MaRDI QIDQ2816519zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryan Goh, Arnd Scheel

Publication date 23 August 2016

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08601

zbMATH Keywords

Cahn-Hilliard equationheteroclinic bifurcationnon-monotonic wave-number selectionpushed frontssnaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for dynamical systems (37C29) Bifurcations connected with nontransversal intersection in dynamical systems (37G25)

Abstract: Pattern-forming fronts are often controlled by an external stimulus which progresses through a stable medium at a fixed speed, rendering it unstable in its wake. By controlling the speed of excitation, such stimuli, or "triggers," can mediate pattern forming fronts which freely invade an unstable equilibrium and control which pattern is selected. In this work, we analytically and numerically study when the trigger perturbs an oscillatory pushed free front. In such a situation, the resulting patterned front, which we call a pushed trigger front, exhibits a variety of interesting phenomenon, including snaking, non-monotonic wavenumber selection, and hysteresis. Assuming the existence of a generic oscillatory pushed free front, we use heteroclinic bifurcation techniques to prove the existence of trigger fronts in an abstract setting motivated by the spatial dynamics approach. We then derive a leading order expansion for the selected wavenumber in terms of the trigger speed. Furthermore, we show that such a bifurcation curve is governed by the difference of certain strong-stable and weakly-stable spatial eigenvalues associated with the decay of the free pushed front. We also study prototypical examples of these phenomena in the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg Landau equation and a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation.

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