Instability of anchored spirals in geometric flows

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Main Authors: Cortez, Anthony, Li, Nan, Mihm, Nathan, Xu, Alice, Yu, Xiaoxing, Scheel, Arnd
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Published: 2025
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author Cortez, Anthony
Li, Nan
Mihm, Nathan
Xu, Alice
Yu, Xiaoxing
Scheel, Arnd
author_facet Cortez, Anthony
Li, Nan
Mihm, Nathan
Xu, Alice
Yu, Xiaoxing
Scheel, Arnd
contents We investigate existence, stability, and instability of anchored rotating spiral waves in a model for geometric curve evolution. We find existence in a parameter regime limiting on a purely eikonal curve evolution. We study stability and instability theoretically, in the aforementioned limiting regime, and numerically. We find convective and absolute oscillatory instability, as well as saddle-node bifurcations. Our results in particular shed light on the instability of spiral waves in reaction-diffusion systems caused by an instability of wave trains against transverse modulations.
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spellingShingle Instability of anchored spirals in geometric flows
Cortez, Anthony
Li, Nan
Mihm, Nathan
Xu, Alice
Yu, Xiaoxing
Scheel, Arnd
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Analysis of PDEs
We investigate existence, stability, and instability of anchored rotating spiral waves in a model for geometric curve evolution. We find existence in a parameter regime limiting on a purely eikonal curve evolution. We study stability and instability theoretically, in the aforementioned limiting regime, and numerically. We find convective and absolute oscillatory instability, as well as saddle-node bifurcations. Our results in particular shed light on the instability of spiral waves in reaction-diffusion systems caused by an instability of wave trains against transverse modulations.
title Instability of anchored spirals in geometric flows
topic Pattern Formation and Solitons
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07270