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SYSS: Structure Formation and Self-Organization in non-equilibrium Systems

SYSS 1: Structure Formation and Self-Organization in non-equilibrium Systems I

SYSS 1.3: Talk

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 10:00–10:15, BAR Sch\"o

Competition between traveling waves of left and right spiral vortices and their combinations with different or equal amplitudes — •Alexander Pinter, Manfred Lücke, and Christian Hoffmann — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

Stability, bifurcation properties, and the spatiotemporal behavior of different nonlinear combination structures of spiral vortices in the counter rotating Taylor-Couette system are investigated by full numerical simulations and by coupled amplitude equation approximations. Stable cross-spiral structures with continuously varying content of left and right spiral modes are found. They provide a stability transferring connection between the initially stable, axially counter propagating wave states of pure spirals and the axially standing waves of so-called ribbons that become stable slightly further away from onset of vortex flow.