TY - JOUR
T1 - Nucleation, drift, and decay of phase bubbles in period-2 oscillatory wave trains in a reaction-diffusion system
AU - Park, Jin Sung
AU - Woo, Sung Jae
AU - Kwon, Okyu
AU - Kim, Tae Yun
AU - Lee, Kyoung J.
PY - 2008/2/13
Y1 - 2008/2/13
N2 - This is a report on experimental observations of phase bubbles, simply closed boundaries between domains oscillating 2π out of phase, associated with period-2 oscillatory traveling waves in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction-diffusion system. The bubbles nucleate spontaneously through a fast localized phase slip, drift radially away from a neighboring spiral wave core in an oscillatory fashion, and gradually shrink to disappear. Their oscillatory drift along the radial direction is a consequence of "period adaptation," while their lateral shrinkage is an attribute of local curvature. Similar dynamic structures can be reproduced in a simple, three-species reaction-diffusion model that supports period-2 oscillatory wave trains.
AB - This is a report on experimental observations of phase bubbles, simply closed boundaries between domains oscillating 2π out of phase, associated with period-2 oscillatory traveling waves in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction-diffusion system. The bubbles nucleate spontaneously through a fast localized phase slip, drift radially away from a neighboring spiral wave core in an oscillatory fashion, and gradually shrink to disappear. Their oscillatory drift along the radial direction is a consequence of "period adaptation," while their lateral shrinkage is an attribute of local curvature. Similar dynamic structures can be reproduced in a simple, three-species reaction-diffusion model that supports period-2 oscillatory wave trains.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.068302
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.068302
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:40849084188
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 6
M1 - 068302
ER -