Parametrically Excited Surface Waves and Associated Time‐independent Circulation

Grid states and nonlinear selection in parametrically excited surface waves.

Interacting surface waves, parametrically excited by two commensurate frequencies (Faraday waves), yield a rich family of nonlinear states, which result from a variety of three-wave resonant interactions. By perturbing the system with a third frequency, we selectively favor different nonlinear wave interactions. Where quadratic nonlinearities are dominant, the only observed patterns correspond ...

A Center-Unstable Manifold Theorem for Parametrically Excited Surface Waves

When fluid in a rectangular tank sits upon a platform which is oscillating with sufficient amplitude, surface waves appear in the "Faraday resonance." Scientists and engineers have done bifurcation analyses which assume that there is a center manifold theory using a finite number of excited spatial modes. We establish such a center manifold theorem for Xiao-Biao Lin’s model in which potential f...

Control of spatiotemporal disorder in parametrically excited surface waves.

Interacting surface waves, parametrically excited by two commensurate frequencies, yield a number of nonlinear states. Near the system's bicritical point, a state, highly disordered in space and time, results from competition between nonlinear states. Experimentally, this disordered state can be rapidly stabilized to a variety of nonlinear states via open-loop control with a small-amplitude thi...

Parametrically Forced Surface Waves

Parametrically excited surface waves: two-frequency forcing, normal form symmetries, and pattern selection.

Motivated by experimental observations of exotic free surface standing wave patterns in the two-frequency Faraday experiment, we investigate the role of normal form symmetries in the associated pattern-selection problem. With forcing frequency components in ratio m/n, where m and n are coprime integers that are not both odd, there is the possibility that both harmonic waves and subharmonic wave...