Singularities and defects in patterns far from threshold
A phase-diffusion equation furnishes an approximate description of pattern formation in one- and two-dimensional nonlinear dissipative models described by various forms of the Ginzburg-Landau or Swift-Hohenberg equation. This approximation applies to the case when, generally, the local amplitude and wave vector of the patterns are slowly varying functions of time and spatial coordinates, although local defects, at which the amplitude vanishes and the phase is indefinite can also be incorporated. The phase-diffusion equation is a parabolic equation for the real phase of the pattern's field, which contains terms nonlinear in the gradient. In the present work it is shown that, by means of the Legendre transformation, the two-dimensional phase-diffusion equation in its usual form may be transformed into an essentially integrable hodograph equation. Particular solutions that can be obtained form the latter equation describe, in particular, phase field defects in the form of the so-called convex and concave disclinations, the latter one being interpreted as a point where three grain boundaries, separating domains with different orientations of the pattern's wave vector (phase gradient) meet together. It is known that the parabolic phase-diffusion equation may, in certain regions, change its character and become unstable. In this case, the equation can be regularized, adding to it fourth-order linear terms, that are derived from the underlying equations of the Ginzburg-Landau or Swift-Hohenberg type. The regularized equation, in the case when the unregularized one is unstable, is also considered in this work. It is shown that the corresponding stationary solutions can be found from a second-order equation of the so-called self-duality type. In particular, those solutions describe the above-mentioned grain boundaries. A solution describing a terminal disclination, i.e., a grain boundary with a terminal point, can also be obtained. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0863.00008].
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