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View SchemaNonlinear Competition Between Small and Large Hexagonal Patterns
| Authors | Mary Silber, Michael R. E. Proctor |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9710004 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9710004 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2450 |
Abstract
Recent experiments by Kudrolli, Pier and Gollub on surface waves, parametrically excited by two-frequency forcing, show a transition from a small hexagonal standing wave pattern to a triangular ``superlattice'' pattern. We show that generically the hexagons and the superlattice wave patterns bifurcate simultaneously from the flat surface state as the forcing amplitude is increased, and that the experimentally-observed transition can be described by considering a low-dimensional bifurcation problem. A number of predictions come out of this general analysis.
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