10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: Maybird
The Complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation and its variants describe a wide variety of physical phenomena. The rich dynamics coupled with the relative simplicity of the equations create a fertile landscape for studying the dynamics of nonlinear PDEs and the physical systems they describe in this minisymposium. Experimentalists (R.Ecke, M.Dennin) will discuss the determination of CGL coefficients and evidence for periodic and chaotic behavior in two fluid systems. Theorists (H.Riecke, D.Egolf) will describe behavioral transitions, the role of topological defects, and Langevin equation descriptions of long-wavelength behavior in spatiotemporally chaotic CGL equations.
Organizers: David A. Egolf
Los Alamos National Laboratory
MMD, 2/9/99
LMH, 1/7/99; tjf, 2/1/99