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M Pradas1, D Tseluiko, S Kalliadasis
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Consider the effect of pure additive noise on the long-time dynamics of the noisy Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation close to the instability onset. When the noise acts only on the first stable mode (highly degenerate), the KS solution undergoes several state transitions, including critical on-off intermittency and stabilized states, as the noise strength increases. Similar results are obtained with the Burgers equation. Such noise-induced transitions are completely characterized through critical exponents, obtaining the same universality class for both equations, and rigorously explained using multiscale techniques.
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