Localized periodic patterns for the non-symmetric generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation

A new asymptotic multiple scale expansion is used to derive envelope equations for localized spatially periodic patterns in the context of the generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation. An analysis of this envelope equation results in parametric conditions for localized patterns. Furthermore, it yields corrections for wave number selection which are an order of magnitude larger for asymmetric nonlinearities than for the symmetric case. The analytical results are compared with numerical computations which demonstrate that the condition for localized patterns coincides with vanishing Hamiltonian and Lagrangian for periodic solutions. One striking feature of the choice of scaling parameters is that the derived condition for localized patterns agrees with the numerical results for a significant range of parameters which are an O ( 1 ) distance from the bifurcation, thus providing a novel approach for studying these localized patterns.