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Experimental nonlinear electrical reaction-diffusion lattice
1998
International audience; A nonlinear electrical reaction-diffusion lattice modelling the Nagumo equation is presented. It is shown that this system supports front propagation with a given velocity. This propagation is observed experimentally using a video acquisition system, and the measured velocity of the front is in perfect agreement with the theoretical prediction.
Atomistic theory of mesoscopic pattern formation induced by bimolecular surface reactions between oppositely charged molecules
2011
The kinetics of mesoscopic pattern formation is studied for a reversible A+B⇌0 reaction between mobile oppositely charged molecules at the interface. Using formalism of the joint correlation functions, non-equilibrium charge screening and reverse Monte Carlo methods, it is shown that labyrinth-like percolation structure induced by (even moderate-rate) reaction is principally non-steady-state one and is associated with permanently growing segregation of dissimilar reactants and aggregation of similar reactants into mesoscopic size domains. A role of short-range and long-range reactant interactions in pattern formation is discussed.
Gyrification from constrained cortical expansion
2014
The exterior of the mammalian brain - the cerebral cortex - has a conserved layered structure whose thickness varies little across species. However, selection pressures over evolutionary time scales have led to cortices that have a large surface area to volume ratio in some organisms, with the result that the brain is strongly convoluted into sulci and gyri. Here we show that the gyrification can arise as a nonlinear consequence of a simple mechanical instability driven by tangential expansion of the gray matter constrained by the white matter. A physical mimic of the process using a layered swelling gel captures the essence of the mechanism, and numerical simulations of the brain treated a…
Deformations of the seventh order Peregrine breather solutions of the NLS equation with twelve parameters.
2013
We study the solutions of the one dimensional focusing NLS equation. Here we construct new deformations of the Peregrine breather of order 7 with 12 real parameters. We obtain new families of quasi-rational solutions of the NLS equation. With this method, we construct new patterns of different types of rogue waves. We recover triangular configurations as well as rings isolated. As already seen in the previous studies, one sees appearing for certain values of the parameters, new configurations of concentric rings.
Deformations of third order Peregrine breather solutions of the NLS equation with four parameters
2013
In this paper, we give new solutions of the focusing NLS equation as a quotient of two determinants. This formulation gives in the case of the order 3, new deformations of the Peregrine breather with four parameters. This gives a very efficient procedure to construct families of quasi-rational solutions of the NLS equation and to describe the apparition of multi rogue waves. With this method, we construct the analytical expressions of deformations of the Peregrine breather of order N=3 depending on $4$ real parameters and plot different types of rogue waves.
Six-parameters deformations of fourth order Peregrine breather solutions of the NLS equation.
2013
We construct solutions of the focusing NLS equation as a quotient of two determinants. This formulation gives in the case of the order 4, new deformations of the Peregrine breather with 6 real parameters. We construct families of quasi-rational solutions of the NLS equation and describe the apparition of multi rogue waves. With this method, we construct the analytical expressions of deformations of the Peregrine breather of order 4 with 6 real parameters and plot different types of rogue waves.
Families of deformations of the thirteen peregrine breather solutions to the NLS equation depending on twenty four parameters
2017
International audience; We go on with the study of the solutions to the focusing one dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS). We construct here the thirteen's Peregrine breather (P13 breather) with its twenty four real parameters, creating deformation solutions to the NLS equation. New families of quasirational solutions to the NLS equation in terms of explicit ratios of polynomials of degree 182 in x and t multiplied by an exponential depending on t are obtained. We present characteristic patterns of the modulus of these solutions in the (x; t) plane, in function of the different parameters.
Degenerate determinant representation of solutions of the NLS equation, higher Peregrine breathers and multi-rogue waves.
2012
We present a new representation of solutions of the focusing NLS equation as a quotient of two determinants. This work is based on a recent paper in which we have constructed a multi-parametric family of this equation in terms of wronskians. This formulation was written in terms of a limit involving a parameter. Here we give a very compact formulation without presence of a limit. This is a completely new result which gives a very efficient procedure to construct families of quasi-rational solutions of the NLS equation. With this method, we construct Peregrine breathers of orders N=4 to 7 and multi-rogue waves associated by deformation of parameters.
Families of quasi-rational solutions of the NLS equation as an extension of higher order Peregrine breathers.
2011
We construct a multi-parametric family of solutions of the focusing NLS equation from the known result describing the multi phase almost-periodic elementary solutions given in terms of Riemann theta functions. We give a new representation of their solutions in terms of Wronskians determinants of order 2N composed of elementary trigonometric functions. When we perform a special passage to the limit when all the periods tend to infinity, we get a family of quasi-rational solutions. This leads to efficient representations for the Peregrine breathers of orders N=1,, 2, 3, first constructed by Akhmediev and his co-workers and also allows to get a simpler derivation of the generic formulas corres…
Quasi-rational solutions of the NLS equation and rogue waves
2010
We degenerate solutions of the NLS equation from the general formulation in terms of theta functions to get quasi-rational solutions of NLS equations. For this we establish a link between Fredholm determinants and Wronskians. We give solutions of the NLS equation as a quotient of two wronskian determinants. In the limit when some parameter goes to $0$, we recover Akhmediev's solutions given recently It gives a new approach to get the well known rogue waves.