Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
1997-11-03
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
14 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures (please send email to mads.ipsen@uni-c.dk to get postscript file with graphics). To appear in
Scientific paper
The paper discusses the use of amplitude equations to describe the spatio-temporal dynamics of a chemical reaction-diffusion system based on an Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Sufficiently close to a supercritical Hopf bifurcation the reaction-diffusion equation can be approximated by a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with parameters determined by the original equation at the point of operation considered. We illustrate the validity of this reduction by comparing numerical spiral wave solutions to the Oregonator reaction-diffusion equation with the corresponding solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation at finite distances from the bifurcation point. We also compare the solutions at a bifurcation point where the systems develop spatio-temporal chaos. We show that the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation represents the dynamical behavior of the reaction-diffusion equation remarkably well sufficiently far from the bifurcation point for experimental applications to be feasible.
Hynne F.
Ipsen Mads
Soerensen P. G.
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