Abstract
Among the very rich range of possibilities for the dynamics of one dimensional fronts, this article presents, in a film draining experiment, the first observation of a continuous transition from solitary waves to a static spatially periodic pattern. Between these two extreme situations, a regime of colliding solitary waves exhibiting chaos with spatiotemporal intermittency is observed. These observations suggest the description of the static periodic pattern as being the result of a dense packing of propagating solitary waves, and its destabilization to spatiotemporal intermittency as the attempt of some solitary waves to propagate.
- Received 8 March 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3283
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