Ducks in space: from nonlinear absolute instability to noise-sustained structures in a pattern-forming system

Avitabile, Daniele, Desroches, Mathieu, Knobloch, Edgar and Krupa, Martin (2017) Ducks in space: from nonlinear absolute instability to noise-sustained structures in a pattern-forming system. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473 (2207). ISSN 1471-2946

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Abstract

A subcritical pattern-forming system with nonlinear advection in a bounded domain is recast as a slow-fast system in space and studied using a combination of geometric singular perturbation theory and numerical continuation. Two types of solutions describing the possible location of stationary fronts are identified, whose origin is traced to the onset of convective and absolute instability when the system is unbounded. The former are present only for nonzero upstream boundary conditions and provide a quantitative understanding of noise-sustained structures in systems of this type. The latter correspond to the onset of a global mode and are present even with zero upstream boundary condition. The role of canard trajectories in the nonlinear transition between these states is clarified and the stability properties of the resulting spatial structures are determined. Front location in the convective regime is highly sensitive to the upstream boundary condition and its dependence on this boundary condition is studied using a combination of numerical continuation and Monte Carlo simulations of the partial differential equation. Statistical properties of the system subjected to random or stochastic boundary conditions at the inlet are interpreted using the deterministic slow-fast spatial-dynamical system.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/893208
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Mathematical Sciences
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0018
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 11 Oct 2017 12:38
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:16
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/47195

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