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Secondary instabilities of hexagons: a bifurcation analysis of experimentally observed Faraday wave patterns

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We examine three experimental observations of Faraday waves generated by two-frequency forcing, in which a primary hexagonal pattern becomes unstable to three different superlattice patterns. We use the symmetry-based approach developed by Tse et al. to analyse the bifurcations involved in creating the three new patterns. Each of the three examples reveals a different situation that can arise in the theoretical analysis.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0108005,
  title  = {Secondary instabilities of hexagons: a bifurcation analysis of experimentally observed Faraday wave patterns},
  author = {A. M. Rucklidge and M. Silber and J. Fineberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0108005},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages LaTeX, Birkhauser style, 5 figures, submitted to the proceedings of the conference on Bifurcations, Symmetry and Patterns, held in Porto, June 2000