Issue |
EPL
Volume 80, Number 1, October 2007
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Article Number | 14002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/80/14002 | |
Published online | 31 August 2007 |
Bistability of moving and self-pinned fronts of supercritical localized convection structures
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes - Postfach 151150, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
Received:
6
March
2007
Accepted:
6
August
2007
Localized stationary structures that are embedded at supercritical driving in a convectively unstable homogeneous surrounding are investigated by numerical simulations of convection in binary fluid mixtures with weakly negative separation ratios. Bistability of pinned and moving fronts is found in a finite driving interval. The pinning mechanism and the different transition scenarios between pinned and moving fronts at the two ends of the pinning interval is identified to be strongly influenced by the concentration field. Its advective lateral redistribution acting on a sub-wavelength scale allows to explain the observed behavior.
PACS: 47.20.-k – Flow instabilities / 47.54.-r – Pattern selection; pattern formation / 47.20.Ky – Nonlinearity, bifurcation, and symmetry breaking
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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