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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 28: Pattern Formation and Reaction-Diffusion Systems

DY 28.4: Talk

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 10:45–11:00, ZEU 147

Nonlinear patterns shaping the domain on which they live — •Mirko Ruppert and Walter Zimmermann — Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Deutschland

Nonlinear stripe patterns in two spatial dimensions break the rotational symmetry and generically show a preferred orientation near domain boundaries, as described by the famous Newell-Whitehead-Segel (NWS) equation. We first demonstrate that, as a consequence, stripes favour rectangular over quadratic domains. We then investigate the effects of patterns "living" in deformable domains by introducing a model coupling a generalized Swift-Hohenberg model to a generic phase field model describing the domain boundaries. If either the control parameter inside the domain (and therefore the pattern amplitude) or the coupling strength ("anchoring energy" at the boundary) are increased, the stripe pattern self-organizes the domain on which it "lives" into anisotropic shapes. For smooth phase field variations at the domain boundaries, we simultaneously find a selection of the domain shape and the wave number of the stripe pattern. This selection shows further interesting dynamical behavior for rather steep variations of the phase field across the domain boundaries. The here-discovered feedback between the anisotropy of a pattern and its orientation at boundaries is relevant e.g. for shaken drops or biological pattern formation during development.