Pattern formation from defect chaos -- a theory of chevrons

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00223-6zbMATH Open0962.76509arXivpatt-sol/9701005OpenAlexW3102438716MaRDI QIDQ1963771FDOQ1963771

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 7 February 2000

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

Abstract: For over 25 years it is known that the roll structure of electroconvection (EC) in the dielectric regime in planarly aligned nematic liquid crystals has, after a transition to defect chaos, the tendency to form chevron structures. We show, with the help of a coarse-grained model, that this effect can generally be expected for systems with spontaneously broken isotropy, that is lifted by a small external perturbation. The linearized model as well as a nonlinear extension are compared to simulations of a system of coupled amplitude equations which generate chevrons out of defect chaos. The mechanism of chevron formation is similar to the development of Turing patterns in reaction diffusion systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9701005

zbMATH Keywords

Turing patternslinearized modelelectroconvectiondefect chaoscoarse-grained modelplanarly aligned nematic liquid crystalschevron structuresdielectric regimesystem of coupled amplitude equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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• Global behavior of solutions to chevron pattern equations
• Stationary 'V' states for preferred motions of many particles
• Chevron patterns and defect lattices in an anisotropic model for electroconvection
• Backward behavior and determining functionals for chevron pattern equations

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