Dynamical bifurcation of the damped Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation

Abstract

In this paper, we study the primary instability of the damped Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation under a periodic boundary condition. We prove that it bifurcates from the trivial solution to an attractor which determines the long time dynamics of the system. Using the attractor bifurcation theorem and the center manifold theory, we describe the bifurcated attractor in detail.