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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Inwardly rotating spiral wave breakup in oscillatory reaction-diffusion media
Fagen Xie1, Dongzhu Xie, James N Weiss
1Research Department, Kaiser Permanente, 100 S. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
Abstract:
The breakup of inwardly rotating spiral waves has been investigated in an oscillatory reaction-diffusion system near a Hopf bifurcation point. The breakup first occurred at the region far away from the core area, then gradually involved the whole medium by increasing the diffusion coefficient ratio between the two components of the oscillator system. With the approximation of the Complex-Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE), the criteria for the occurrence of the inwardly rotating spiral wave are examined theoretically. The analysis of the stability in the corresponding CGLE revealed that the breakup of the inward spiral wave was related to the Eckhaus instability.
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