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| The collective motion of camphor boats in the water channel exhibits both a homogeneous and an inhomogeneous state, depending on the number of boats, when unidirectional motion along an annular water channel can be observed even with only one camphor boat. In a theoretical research, the unidirectional motion is represented by a traveling wave solution in a model. Since the experimental results described above are thought of as a kind of bifurcation phenomena, we would like to investigate a linearized eigenvalue problem in order to prove the destabilization of a traveling wave solution. However, the eigenvalue problem is too difficult to analyze even if the number of camphor boats is 2. Hence we need to make a reduction on the model. In this talk, we apply the center manifold theory and reduce the model to an ordinary differential system rigorously. We also show that the reduced system has a periodic solution corresponding to an inhomogeneous state in the experiment via numerical simulations. |
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