title: Coherent structures and entropy in constrained, modulationally unstable, nonintegrable systems.
abstract: Many studies have shown that nonintegrable systems with modulational instabilities constrained by more than one conservation law exhibit universal long time behavior involving large coherent structures in a sea of small fluctuations. We show how this behavior can be explained in detail by simple thermodynamic arguments.
authors.affiliation: Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
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authors.lastname: Rumpf
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authors.lastname: Newell