COILING AND SUPERCOILING OF VORTEX FILAMENTS IN OSCILLATORY MEDIA

Authors
ROUSSEAU G CHATE H KAPRAL R
Citation
G. Rousseau et al., COILING AND SUPERCOILING OF VORTEX FILAMENTS IN OSCILLATORY MEDIA, Physical review letters, 80(25), 1998, pp. 5671-5674
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
80
Issue
25
Year of publication
1998
Pages
5671 - 5674
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)80:25<5671:CASOVF>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We study the behavior of vortex filaments subject to a uniform density of phase twist in oscillatory media described by the complex Ginzburg -Landau equation. The first instability is a supercritical Hopf bifurc ation to stable propagating helical vortices. The secondary instabilit y, also a forward Hopf bifurcation, leads to quasiperiodic supercoiled filaments. dynamical objects are akin to those of twisted elastic rod s.