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Dynamical modes of two almost identical chemical oscillators connected via both pulsatile and diffusive coupling
Dmitry A Safonov1, Vladimir K Vanag
1Centre for Nonlinear Chemistry, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 14 A. Nevskogo str., Kaliningrad, 236041, Russia. dasafonov@kantiana.ru vvanag@kantiana.ru.
Abstract:
The dynamical regimes of two almost identical Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillators with both pulsatile (with time delay) and diffusive coupling have been studied theoretically with the aid of ordinary differential equations for four combinations of these types of coupling: inhibitory diffusive and inhibitory pulsatile (IDIP); excitatory diffusive and inhibitory pulsatile; inhibitory diffusive and excitatory pulsatile; and finally, excitatory diffusive and excitatory pulsatile (EDEP). The combination of two types of coupling creates a condition for new feedback, which promotes new dynamical modes for the IDIP and EDEP coupling.
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