title: Noise-induced intermittent cellular patterns on circular domains.
abstract: We study the effects of thermal noise in a stochastic Langevin formulation of a typical example of a pattern-forming system with two-dimensional circular domain. A greater tendency towards dynamic cellular states is observed when the pattern-forming system is subjected to noise, which seems to explain the prevailing behavior of related laboratory experiments. We also report on two-dimensional numerical observations of certain dynamic states, homoclinic intermittent states, which until now, had only been observed in laboratory experiments.
authors.affiliation: Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-7720, USA. blomgren@terminus.sdsu.edu
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Blomgren
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gasner
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Palacios