Reduction of weakly nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations

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Abstract: It is known that the Swift-Hohenberg equation partialu/partialt=−(partialx2+1)2u+varepsilon(u−u3) can be reduced to the Ginzburg-Landau equation (amplitude equation) partialA/partialt=4partialx2A+varepsilon(A−3A|A|2) by means of the singular perturbation method. This means that if varepsilon>0 is sufficiently small, a solution of the latter equation provides an approximate solution of the former one. In this paper, a reduction of a certain class of a system of nonlinear parabolic equations partialu/partialt=mathcalPu+varepsilonf(u) is proposed. An amplitude equation of the system is defined and an error estimate of solutions is given. Further, it is proved under certain assumptions that if the amplitude equation has a stable steady state, then a given equation has a stable periodic solution . In particular, near the periodic solution, the error estimate of solutions holds uniformly in t>0.












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