Fronts, Domain Growth and Dynamical Scaling in a d=1 non-Potential System

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1997-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9711217v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

15 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.58.3125

We present a study of dynamical scaling and front motion in a one dimensional system that describes Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rotating cell. We use a model of three competing modes proposed by Busse and Heikes to which spatial dependent terms have been added. As long as the angular velocity is different from zero, there is no known Lyapunov potential for the dynamics of the system. As a consequence the system follows a non-relaxational dynamics and the asymptotic state can not be associated with a final equilibrium state. When the rotation angular velocity is greater than some critical value, the system undergoes the Kuppers-Lortz instability leading to a time dependent chaotic dynamics and there is no coarsening beyond this instability. We have focused on the transient dynamics below this instability, where the dynamics is still non-relaxational. In this regime the dynamics is governed by a non-relaxational motion of fronts separating dynamically equivalent homogeneous states. We classify the families of fronts that occur in the dynamics, and calculate their shape and velocity. We have found that a scaling description of the coarsening process is still valid as in the potential case. The growth law is nearly logarithmic with time for short times and becomes linear after a crossover, whose width is determined by the strength of the non-potential terms.

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