title: Pattern selection in parametrically driven arrays of nonlinear resonators.
abstract: We study the problem of pattern selection in an array of parametrically driven nonlinear resonators with application to microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems, using an amplitude equation recently derived by Bromberg, Cross, and Lifshitz [Phys. Rev. E 73, 016214 (2006)]. We describe the transitions between standing-wave patterns of different wave numbers as the drive amplitude is varied either quasistatically, abruptly, or as a linear ramp in time. We find interesting hysteretic effects, which are confirmed by numerical integration of the original equations of motion of the interacting nonlinear resonators.
authors.affiliation: Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
authors.forename: Eyal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kenig
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lifshitz
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Cross