Pattern Formation in Periodicaly Forced Oscillatory Systems
Pattern Formation in Periodicaly Forced Oscillatory Systems
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2004
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A. Yochelis
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Oscillatory systems are common features of our lives, one may find their realizations in simple clocks or in more complicated technological equipments like satellite-based navigation systems and pacemakers implanted to prevent cardiac arrhythmia. The ecological and biological worlds also reveal diverse oscillatory dynamical behaviors like seasonal flower blooms, predator-prey relations, or cell divisions. In the context of large-scale objects, it is easy to notice that the earth (like many other planets) is making oscillations around a sun with an approximate period of one year (365 days). It was also indicated that the galaxies perform rotational periodic motion around black holes, assumed to exist in their center. In small-scale systems, the Quantum mechanical descriptions of the elementary particles, Electromagnetism, crystals etc. involve oscillatory behaviors. The scientific significance of oscillatory dynamics have attracted both theoretical studies and studies of specific physical, chemical, biological, ecological and even economical systems. When oscillatory systems are subjected to temporal forcing they may exhibit entrainment or frequency locking phenomena. A system is frequency locked when its oscillation frequency is adjusted to an irreducible fraction of the forcing frequency. This resonance condition admits a tongue-like domain in the plane spanned by the forcing amplitude and frequency. Outside the resonance tongue the system exhibits quasiperiodic oscillations. Frequency locking phenomena have been extensively studied for single oscillator type systems, however, the fundamental description of resonance phenomena for spatially extended systems is missing. This thesis is concerned with frequency locking phenomena in spatially extended media and addresses the effects of pattern formation on resonance behavior. We study pattern formation mechanisms and parameters ranges where resonant and non-resonant patterns are developed. Among our results we show that in extended systems: (a) Standing waves are the only patterns (besides uniform oscillations) that satisfy the frequency locking condition: each point in space can oscillate either in or out of resonance. (b) Spatial structures and instabilities may reduce or extend the boundaries of frequency locking so that the resonance ranges for a single oscillator do not always coincide with resonance ranges in extended systems. This research has been motivated by recent experiments on temporally driven Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction-diffusion systems. It was observed that standing– wave patterns may develop from spiral waves when the system is periodically forced at approximately twice its natural frequency (hereafter 2:1 resonance), and that the standing waves occupy only a part of the 2:1 resonance tongue. The experiments also indicate that labyrinthine standing–wave patterns may develop in two distinct ways. Labyrinths may develop by a fingering instability, and by nucleation of stripes from unlocked oscillations.