Published July 5, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Universal properties of the two-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

  • 1. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012 (India)

Description

We investigate the properties of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in two spatial dimensions. We show by an explicit, numerical, coarse-graining procedure that its long-wavelength properties are described by a stochastic, partial differential equation of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang type. From the computed parameters in our effective, stochastic equation we argue that the length and time scales over which the correlation functions cross over from linear diffusive to those of the full nonlinear equation are very large. The behavior of the three-dimensional equation is also discussed

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 12-15.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO