Nonlinear modulation of travelling rolls in magnetoconvection

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00034-1zbMATH Open0962.76527arXivpatt-sol/9610007MaRDI QIDQ1963264FDOQ1963264

Ken-ichi Matsuba, Kenji Imai, K. Nozaki

Publication date: 24 January 2000

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Modulational dynamics of oscillatory travelling rolls in magnetoconvection is studied near the onset of a Hopf bifurcation. Using weakly nonlinear analysis, we derive an envelope equation of oscillatory travelling rolls in the plane perpendicular to an ambient vertical magnetic field.The envelope equation is the Davey-Stewartson (DS) equation with complex coefficients, from which we obtain criteria for the modulational (Benjamin-Feir) instability of oscillatory travelling rolls.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9610007

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf bifurcationamplitude equationsDavey-Stewartson equationweakly nonlinear analysismodulational instabilitymagnetoconvectionenvelope equationoscillatory travelling rolls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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