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In this paper we present a general framework in which one can rigorously study the effect of spatio-temporal noise on traveling waves, stationary patterns and oscillations that are invariant under the action of a finite-dimensional set of…

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This paper presents our investigation into the modification of a finite-width internal gravity wave beam arising from triadic resonance instability. We present both experimental and weakly non-linear modelling to examine this instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 K. M. Grayson , Stuart B. Dalziel , Andrew G. W. Lawrie

It was shown previously that the current-carrying state of a Field Effect Transistor with asymmetric source and drain boundary conditions may become unstable against spontaneous generation of plasma waves [1]. By extending the analysis to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. I. Dyakonov

The propagation of unstable interfaces is at the origin of remarkable patterns that are observed in various areas of science as chemical reactions, phase transitions, growth of bacterial colonies. Since a scalar equation generates usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Michal Kolwalczyk , Benoit Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet

We reveal the generic characteristics of wave packet delocalization in two-dimensional nonlinear disordered lattices by performing extensive numerical simulations in two basic disordered models: the Klein-Gordon system and the discrete…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-18 Bertin Many Manda , Bob Senyange , Charalampos Skokos

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

The notion of instability of a turbulent flow is introduced in the case of a von K\'arm\'an flow thanks to the monitoring of the spatio-temporal spectrum of the velocity fluctuations, combined with projection onto suitable Beltrami modes.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-14 Eric Herbert , Pierre-Philippe Cortet , François Daviaud , Bérengère Dubrulle

Baroclinic instability is a fundamental mechanism driving atmospheric dynamics. In this work, we revisit Pedlosky's two-layer model for finite amplitude baroclinic waves - a seminal framework for studying the unstable growth of finite…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Nicolas De Ro , Jonathan Demaeyer , Stéphane Vannitsem

We study spatiotemporal chaos in two-dimensional dense active suspensions using a generalized hydrodynamic model. Increasing activity induces a structural transition marked by the formation of intense vortices and giant number fluctuations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Kirti Kashyap , Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Anupam Gupta

The modulational instability of waves in a medium under the action of an external monochromatic force and dissipation is considered. The model which describes the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability was constructed with using…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-11-29 Evgeny Belkin , Alexander Kirichok , Vladimir Kuklin

A new type of instability - electrokinetic instability - and an unusual transition to chaotic motion near a charge-selective surface was studied by numerical integration of the Nernst-Planck-Poisson-Stokes system and a weakly nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-17 E. A. Demekhin , N. V. Nikitin , V. S. Shelistov

The linear dynamics and instability mechanisms of double-layered weakly viscoelastic fluid flowing over an inclined plane are analyzed in the presence of insoluble surfactant at both the free surface and interface. The constitutive equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-07 Md. Mouzakkir Hossain , Mohamin B. M. Khan , Youchuang Chao

Three coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations for hexagonal patterns with broken chiral symmetry are investigated. They are relevant for the dynamics close to onset of rotating non-Boussinesq or surface-tension-driven convection. Steady and…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Blas Echebarria , Hermann Riecke

We consider two-dimensional (2D) localized vortical modes in the three-wave system with the quadratic ($\chi ^{(2)}$) nonlinearity, alias nondegenerate second-harmonic-generating system, guided by the isotropic harmonic-oscillator (HO)…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Arnaldo Gammal , Boris A. Malomed

We identify a new type of pattern formation in spatially distributed active systems. We simulate one-dimensional two-component systems with predator-prey local interaction and pursuit-evasion taxis between the components. In a sufficiently…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 V. N. Biktashev , M. A. Tsyganov

We observe a crossover from strong to weak chaos in the spatiotemporal evolution of multiple site excitations within disordered chains with cubic nonlinearity. Recent studies have shown that Anderson localization is destroyed, and the wave…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-06 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , D. O. Krimer , Ch. Skokos , S. Flach

We analyze stability of a system which contains an harmonic oscillator non-linearly coupled to its second harmonic, in the presence of a driving force. It is found that there always exists a critical amplitude of the driving force above…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Khalatnikov , M. Kroyter

The effect of an externally applied flow on symmetry degenerated waves propagating into opposite directions and standing waves that exchange stability with the traveling waves via mixed states is analyzed. Wave structures that consist of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-19 A. Pinter , M. Lücke , Ch. Hoffmann

Recent research indicates that low-inertia viscoelastic channel flow experiences supercritical non-normal mode elastic instability from laminar to sustained chaotic flow due to finite-size perturbations. The challenge of this study is to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yuke Li , Victor Steinberg

We report an instability exhibited by a fluid system when coupling two distinct types of waves, both linearly damped. While none of them is unstable on its own, they amplify one another, resulting in a previously unreported convective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-05 Grégoire Le Lay , Adrian Daerr