Period-Doubling of Spiral Waves and Defects
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Motivated by experimental observations in the light-sensitive Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction and subsequent numerical works, we discuss period-doubling bifurcations of spiral waves and other coherent structures. We report on explanations of the observed phenomena which involve a detailed analysis of spectra, and of the associated eigenfunctions, of defects on bounded and unbounded domains.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM J. Applied Dynamical Systems
دوره 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007