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Igal Berenstein1, Yannick De Decker1
1NonLinear Physical Chemistry Unit, and Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems (CENOLI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Campus Plaine, C.P. 231. B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract:
In this paper, we show that the Gray-Scott model is able to produce defect-mediated turbulence. This regime emerges from the limit cycle, close or far from the Hopf bifurcation, but always right before the Andronov homoclinic bifurcation of the homogeneous system. After this bifurcation, as the control parameter is further changed, the system starts visiting more and more frequently the stable node of the model. Consequently, the defect-mediated turbulence gradually turns into spatiotemporal intermittency.
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