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Sources, sinks and wavenumber selection in coupled CGL equations and experimental implications for counter-propagating wave systems
Martin van Hecke, Cornelis Storm, Wim van Saarloos
We study the coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equations for traveling wave systems in the regime where sources and sinks separate patches of left and right-traveling waves. We…
Sources and sinks separating domains of left- and right-traveling waves: Experiment versus amplitude equations
Roberto Alvarez, Martin van Hecke, Wim van Saarloos
In many pattern forming systems that exhibit traveling waves, sources and sinks occur which separate patches of oppositely traveling waves. We show that simple qualitative features…
Front propagation into unstable and metastable states in Smectic C* liquid crystals: linear and nonlinear marginal stability analysis
Wim van Saarloos, Martin van Hecke, Robert Holyst
We discuss the front propagation in ferroelectric chiral smectics (SmC*) subjected to electric and magnetic fields applied parallel to smectic layers. The reversal of the electric…