We present a perturbation method for determining the moment stability of linear ordinary differential equations with parametric forcing by colored noise. In particular, the forcing arises from passing white noise through an nth order filter. We carry out a perturbation analysis based on a small parameter ε that gives the amplitude of the forcing. Our perturbation analysis is based on a ladder o...

Two-dimensional, nonlinear magnetohydrodynamical simulations are used to investigate the so-called Taylor problem, in which a small amplitude boundary perturbation is suddenly applied to a tearing stable, slab plasma equilibrium—the perturbation being such as to drive magnetic reconnection within the plasma. This type of reconnection, which is not due to an intrinsic plasma instability, is gene...

We analyze spatiotemporal structures in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study the dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with mean-field interactions. A coherent structure ansatz yields a parametrically forced nonlinear oscillator, to which we apply Lindstedt's method and multiple-scale perturbation theory to determine the dependence of the intensity of periodic orb...

In this paper, we show that all periods of periodic points forced by a pattern for interval maps are preserved for high-dimensional maps if the multidimensional perturbation is small. We also show that if an interval map has a fixed point associated with a homoclinic-like orbit then any small multidimensional perturbation has periodic points of all periods. Dedicated to the 60th birthday of Mic...

Various resonant and near-resonant patterns form in a light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction in response to a spatially homogeneous time-periodic perturbation with light. The regions (tongues) in the forcing frequency and forcing amplitude parameter plane where resonant patterns form are identified through analysis of the temporal response of the patterns. Resonant and near-resonant...

We investigate pattern formation in self-oscillating systems forced by an external periodic perturbation. Experimental observations and numerical studies of reaction-diffusion systems and an analysis of an amplitude equation are presented. The oscillations in each of these systems entrain to rational multiples of the perturbation frequency for certain values of the forcing frequency and amplitu...