Phase turbulence in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation via Kuramoto-Sivashinsky phase dynamics

Publication date 11 November 2004

Abstract: We study the Complex Ginzburg--Landau initial value problem

,

u (x, 0) = u_{0} (x)

for a complex field

, with

. We consider the Benjamin--Feir linear instability region

with

e p s i l o n l l 1

and

a l p h a^{2} < 1 / 2

. We show that for all

e p s i l o n l e q c a l O (s q r t 1 - 2 a l p h a^{2} L_{0}^{- 32 / 37})

, and for all initial data

u_{0}

sufficiently close to 1 (up to a global phase factor

) in the appropriate space, there exists a unique (spatially) periodic solution of space period

L_{0}

. These solutions are small {em even} perturbations of the traveling wave solution,

, and

s, e t a

have bounded norms in various

L^{p}

and Sobolev spaces. We prove that

s a p p r o x - 1 / 2 e t a^{″}

apart from

c a l O (e p s i l o n^{2})

corrections whenever the initial data satisfy this condition, and that in the linear instability range

L_{0}^{- 1} l e q e p s i l o n l e q c a l O (L_{0}^{- 32 / 37})

, the dynamics is essentially determined by the motion of the phase alone, and so exhibits `phase turbulence'. Indeed, we prove that the phase

e t a

satisfies the Kuramoto--Sivashinsky equation

for times

t_{0} l e q c a l O (e p s i l o n^{- 52 / 5} L_{0}^{- 32 / 5})

, while the amplitude

1 + a l p h a^{2} s

is essentially constant.

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