Subcritical modulational instability and transition to chaos from periodicity

摘要

This study shows that a modulationally destabilized monochromatic wave in a fluid system may undergo a subcritical bifurcation directly into chaos, when dissipation is weak enough. Analysis is made within the framework of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equations. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.