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Justification of mean-field coupled modulation equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Guido Schneider
Guido Schneider
Affiliation:
IfAM, Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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Abstract

We are interested in reflection symmetric (x↦–x) evolution problems on the infinite line. In the systems which we have in mind, a trivial ground state loses stability and bifurcates into a temporally oscillating, spatial periodic pattern. A famous example of such a system is the Taylor-Couette problem in the case of strongly counter-rotating cylinders. In this paper, we consider a system of coupled Kuramoto–Shivashinsky equations as a model problem for such a system. We are interested in solutions which are slow modulations in time and in space of the bifurcating pattern. Multiple scaling analysis is used in the existing literature to derive mean-field coupled Ginzburg–Landau equations as approximation equations for the problem. The aim of this paper is to give exact estimates between the solutions of the coupled Kuramoto–Shivashinsky equations and the associated approximations.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 127 , Issue 3 , 1997 , pp. 639 - 650
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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