A Mechanism for Spatio-Temporal Disorder in Bistable Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Details A Mechanism for Spatio-Temporal Disorder in Bistable Reaction-Diffusion Systems A Mechanism for Spatio-Temporal Disorder in Bistable Reaction-Diffusion Systems

1996-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9612001v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

10 pages. An HTML version of this article is at http://www.springer-ny.com/nst/nstarticles.html . Aric Hagberg: http://t7.la

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In bistable systems, the stability of front structures often influences the dynamics of extended patterns. We show how the combined effect of an instability to curvature modulations and proximity to a pitchfork front bifurcation leads to spontaneous nucleation of spiral waves along the front. This effect is demonstrated by direct simulations of a FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) model and by simulations of order parameter equations for the front velocity and curvature. Spontaneous spiral-wave nucleation often results in a state of spatio-temporal disorder involving repeated events of spiral wave nucleation, domain spliting and spiral wave annihilation.

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