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Nicolás Verschueren1, Edgar Knobloch1, Hannes Uecker2
1Physics Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract:
Axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric patterns in the cubic-quintic Swift-Hohenberg equation posed on a disk with Neumann boundary conditions are studied via numerical continuation and bifurcation analysis. Axisymmetric localized solutions in the form of spots and rings known from earlier studies persist and snake in the usual fashion until they begin to interact with the boundary. Depending on parameters, including the disk radius, these states may or may not connect to the branch of domain-filling target states. Secondary instabilities of localized axisymmetric states may create multiarm localized structures that grow and interact with the boundary before broadening into domain-filling states. High azimuthal wave number wall states referred to as daisy states are also found. Secondary bifurcations from these states include localized daisies, i.e., wall states localized in both radius and angle. Depending on parameters, these states may snake much as in the one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation, or invade the interior of the domain, yielding states referred to as worms, or domain-filling stripes.
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