Sources and sinks in ID traveling waves

L. Pastur, M.T. Westra, W. Water, van de

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Abstract

We study the behavior of sources and sinks in an experiment where left and right traveling waves are excited on the free surface of a fluid that is heated by a wire stretched under the surface. To study phenomena very close to threshold the experiment is made very long (2 in), while a precise linear map of the free surface is provided by a scanning device. The observed dynamical behavior of the sources is in agreement with a recent prediction based on the coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation [Physica D 134 (1999) 1]. However, the behavior of the sinks disagrees with it. When sources turn unstable they eject holes which are believed to be of homoclinic type.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)71-83
Number of pages13
JournalPhysica D : Nonlinear Phenomena
Volume174
Issue number1/4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003

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