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Nonlinear Modulation of Travelling Rolls in Magnetoconvection

Ken-ichi Matsuba, Kenji Imai, Kazuhiro Nozaki

patt-solarXiv:patt-sol/9610007

Abstract

Modulational dynamics of oscillatory travelling rolls in magnetoconvection is studied near the onset of a Hopf bifurcation. Using weakly nonlinear analysis, we derive an envelope equation of oscillatory travelling rolls in the plane perpendicular to an ambient vertical magnetic field.The envelope equation is the Davey-Stewartson (DS) equation with complex coefficients, from which we obtain criteria for the modulational (Benjamin-Feir) instability of oscillatory travelling rolls.

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