Publication Date:
2014-02-26
Description:
Spiral-like patterns are an often observed phenomenon in chemical experiments such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction. The talk is concerned with a new PDE model whose solutions have the form of rotating spirals. In contrast to previous approaches it is based on a {\em scalar\/} reaction diffusion equation defined on a disk. A particular choice of boundary conditions leads to a non-selfadjoint operator which permits non-trivial dynamics. We study this equation using a combination of equivariant bifurcation theory and numerical simulations. The latter involves the direct simulation of the time dependent system as well as the computation of rotating waves and their stability.
Keywords:
ddc:000
Language:
English
Type:
reportzib
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doc-type:preprint
Format:
application/postscript
Format:
application/pdf
