Nonlinear Sciences – Pattern Formation and Solitons
Scientific paper
2004-02-24
J. Phys. Chem. B, 108 (38), 14733 -14740, 2004.
Nonlinear Sciences
Pattern Formation and Solitons
10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Chem. B on Feb. 20, 2004. A short account of the spiral-antispiral criterion has be
Scientific paper
10.1021/jp049213r
Spiral and antispiral waves are studied numerically in two examples of oscillatory reaction-diffusion media and analytically in the corresponding complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE). We argue that both these structures are sources of waves in oscillatory media, which are distinguished only by the sign of the phase velocity of the emitted waves. Using known analytical results in the CGLE, we obtain a criterion for the CGLE coefficients that predicts whether antispirals or spirals will occur in the corresponding reaction-diffusion systems. We apply this criterion to the FitzHugh-Nagumo and Brusselator models by deriving the CGLE near the Hopf bifurcations of the respective equations. Numerical simulations of the full reaction-diffusion equations confirm the validity of our simple criterion near the onset of oscillations. They also reveal that antispirals often occur near the onset and turn into spirals further away from it. The transition from antispirals to spirals is characterized by a divergence in the wavelength. A tentative interpretaion of recent experimental observations of antispiral waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction in a microemulsion is given.
Baer Markus
Brusch Lutz
Nicola Ernesto M.
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