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Feedback Control of Traveling Wave Solutions of the Complex Ginzburg Landau Equation
Through a linear stability analysis, we investigate the effectiveness of a
noninvasive feedback control scheme aimed at stabilizing traveling wave
solutions of the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg Landau equation (CGLE) in the
Benjamin-Feir unstable regime. The feedback control is a generalization of the
time-delay method of Pyragas, which was proposed by Lu, Yu and Harrison in the
setting of nonlinear optics. It involves both spatial shifts, by the wavelength
of the targeted traveling wave, and a time delay that coincides with the
temporal period of the traveling wave. We derive a single necessary and
sufficient stability criterion which determines whether a traveling wave is
stable to all perturbation wavenumbers. This criterion has the benefit that it
determines an optimal value for the time-delay feedback parameter. For various
coefficients in the CGLE we use this algebraic stability criterion to
numerically determine stable regions in the (K,rho) parameter plane, where rho
is the feedback parameter associated with the spatial translation and K is the
wavenumber of the traveling wave. We find that the combination of the two
feedbacks greatly enlarges the parameter regime where stabilization is
possible, and that the stability regions take the form of stability tongues in
the (K,rho)--plane. We discuss possible resonance mechanisms that could account
for the spacing with K of the stability tongues.Comment: 33 pages, 12 figure
Transition Fronts in Time Heterogeneous and Random Media of Ignition Type
The current paper is devoted to the investigation of wave propagation
phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations with ignition type nonlinearity in
time heterogeneous and random media. It is proven that such equations in time
heterogeneous media admit transition fronts or generalized traveling wave
solutions with time dependent profiles and that such equations in time random
media admit generalized traveling wave solutions with random profiles.
Important properties of generalized traveling wave solutions, including the
boundedness of propagation speeds and the uniform decaying estimates of the
propagation fronts, are also obtained
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