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Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 3024–3027 (1992)

Ordering Dynamics in the Two-Dimensional Stochastic Swift-Hohenberg Equation

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K. R. Elder1, Jorge Viñals2, and Martin Grant1
1Department of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 University Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
2Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, B-186, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4052

Received 10 September 1991; revised 25 November 1991; published in the issue dated 18 May 1992

Numerical and analytic techniques are used to study the roll patterns which appear following a convective instability as modeled by the Swift-Hohenberg equation. The results of this work reveal the presence of a disordered state and a quasiordered state at large and small noise strengths, respectively. The dynamical approach to these states is shown to be rapid in the former case and slow in the later. Both numerical and analytic calculations indicate that the slow dynamics can be characterized by a simple scaling relationship.

© 1992 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3024
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3024
PACS:
47.20.Ky, 05.40.+j, 47.20.Hw, 47.25.Qv