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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Pattern forming system in the presence of different symmetry-breaking mechanisms
1Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
We report experiments on spatially forced inclined layer convection, where the combined effect of the intrinsic symmetry breaking due to a gravity-induced shear flow and spatially periodic 1D forcing is studied. We observed pattern selection processes resulting in stabilization of spatiotemporal chaos and the emergence of novel two-dimensional states. Phase diagrams depicting the different observed states for typical forcing scenarios are presented. Convection in the weakly nonlinear regime is compared with theory, and a good agreement is found.
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