The Ginzburg-Landau equation may be used to describe the weakly nonlinear 2-dimensional evolution of a disturbance in plane Poiseuille flow at Reynolds number near critical. We consider a class of quasisteady solutions of this equation whose spatial variation may be periodic, quasiperiodic, or solitarywave-like. Of particular interest are solutions describing a transition from the laminar solution to finite amplitude states. The existence of these solutions suggests the existence of a similar class of solutions in the Navier-Stokes equations, describing pulses and fronts of instability in the flow.
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