Stellar oscillons.
We study the weakly nonlinear evolution of acoustic instability of a plane-parallel polytrope with thermal dissipation in the form of Newton's law of cooling. The most unstable horizontal wavenumbers form a band around zero and this permits the development of a nonlinear pattern theory leading to a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE). Numerical solutions for a subcritical, quintic CGLE produce vertically oscillating, localized structures that resemble the oscillons observed in recent experiments of vibrated granular material.
Umurhan
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Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
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Spiegel
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