Competition of Spatial and Temporal Instabilities underTime Delay near Codimension-Two Turing-Hopf Bifurcations

Competition of spatial and temporal instabilities under time delay near the codimension-two Turing-Hopf bifurcations is studied in a reaction-diffusion equation. The time delay changes remarkably the oscillation frequency, the intrinsic wave vector, and the intensities of both Turing and Hopf modes.
The application of appropriate time delay can control the competition between the Turing and Hopf modes. Analysis shows that individual or both feedbacks can realizethe control of the transformation between the Turing and Hopf patterns.Two-dimensional numerical simulations validate the analytical results.     

反应扩散系统中反螺旋波与反靶波的数值研究

采用三变量Brusselator扩展模型在二维空间对反应扩散系统中反螺旋波和反靶波进行了数值模拟,利用色散关系和参量的时空变化研究了反螺旋波与反靶波的形成机制和时空特性,分析了方程参数对反螺旋波与反靶波的影响,获得了多种不同臂数的反螺旋波.模拟结果表明：反螺旋波源于波失稳、霍普失稳,或两种失稳的共同作用,而在反靶波中除上述两种失稳外还同时存在图灵失稳,波的传播方向均由外向内;反螺旋波波头的相位运动方向与波的走向相同,且旋转周期随臂数的增加逐渐增大;多臂数的反螺旋波由于受微扰及边界条件的影响,在波头的持续旋转运动中可以向臂数少的反螺旋波发生转变,并且在一定条件下单臂反螺旋波可实现到反靶波的转变;当不活跃中间物质的浓度的扩散系数超过临界值时,波的传播方向发生改变,系统可以实现反螺旋波到螺旋波以及反靶波到靶波的转变.     

Pattern Formation in the Turing-Hopf Codimension-2 Phase Space in a Reaction-Diffusion System

We systematicaily investigate the behaviour of pattern formation in a reaction-diffusion system when the system is located near the Turing-Hopf codimension-2 point in phase space. The chloride-iodide-malonic acid （CIMA） reaction is used in this study. A phase diagram is obtained using the concentration of polyvinyl alcohol （PVA ） and malonic acid （MA） as control parameters. It is found that the Turing-Hopf mixed state appears only in a small vicinity near the codimension-2 point, and has the form of hexagonal pattern overlapped with anti-target wave; the boundary line separating the Taring state and the wave state is independent of the concentration of MA, only relies on the concentration of PVA. The corresponding numerical simulation using the Lengyel-Epstein （LE） model gives a similar phase diagram as the experiment; it reproduces most patterns observed in the experiment. However, the mixed state we obtain in simulation only appears in the anti-wave tip area, implying that the 3-D effect in the experiments may change the pattern forming behaviour in the codimension-2 regime.     

Pattern formation in forced reaction diffusion systems with nearly degenerate bifurcations

The existence and stability of stable standing-wave patterns in an assembly of spatially distributed generic oscillators governed by a couple of complex Ginzburg-Landau equations, subjected to parametric forcing, are reported. The mechanism of a dispersion-induced pattern in dissipative oscillators parametrically forced near the degenerate Turing-Hopf bifurcation is also illustrated. We show that, when excitation occurs just after the Turing bifurcation and before the Hopf instability, the system exhibits a new type of stable standing-wave structures, namely the mixed-mode solutions. The Brussellator-model, parametrically forced below the threshold of oscillations, is analyzed as an example of calculation.     

气体放电系统中多臂螺旋波的数值分析

采用Purwins的三变量模型, 在二维空间对气体放电系统中多臂螺旋波的形成和转化进行了数值研究. 通过分析方程参数对系统空间的影响, 确定了系统获得稳定螺旋波的参数空间; 得到了斑图由简单静态六边形到螺旋波的演化过程, 分析了螺旋波的形成机制和时空特性; 进一步获得六种不同臂数的多臂螺旋波斑图(例如: 双臂、三臂、四臂、五臂、六臂和七臂螺旋波). 结果表明: 螺旋波斑图出现在图灵-霍普夫(Turing-Hopf)空间, 是Turing模和Hopf模相互竞争、相互作用的结果; 不同臂数的螺旋波波头均在持续地旋转运动, 其运动速度随螺旋波臂数的增加而增大; 随着螺旋波臂数的增加, 其波头的运动形式愈加复杂; 由于受微扰及边界条件的影响, 多臂螺旋波可以向臂数少一的螺旋波发生转变, 数值模拟结果与实验结果符合较好. 关键词： 螺旋波 数值模拟 气体放电     

Pattern formation in an N+Q component reaction-diffusion system

A general N+Q component reaction-diffusion system is analyzed with regard to pattern forming instabilities (Turing bifurcations). The system consists of N mobile species and Q immobile species. The Q immobile species form in response to reactions between the N mobile species and an immobile substrate and allow the Turing instability to occur. These results are valid both for bifurcations from a spatially uniform state and for systems with an externally imposed gradient as in the experimental systems in which Turing patterns have been observed. It is shown that the critical wave number and the location of the instability in parameter space are independent of the substrate concentration. It is also found that the system necessarily undergoes a Hopf bifurcation as the total substrate concentration is decreased. Further, in the case that all the mobile species diffuse at identical rates we show that if the full system is at a point of Turing bifurcation then the N component mobile subsystem is at transition from an unstable focus to an unstable node, and the critical wave number is simply related to the degenerate positive eigenvalue of the mobile subsystem. A sequence of bifurcations that occur in the eigenspectra as the total substrate concentration is decreased to zero is also discussed.     

Nonlinear analysis of a reaction-diffusion system: Amplitude equations

A reaction-diffusion system with a nonlinear diffusion term is considered. Based on nonlinear analysis, the amplitude equations are obtained in the cases of the Hopf and Turing instabilities in the system. Turing pattern-forming regions in the parameter space are determined for supercritical and subcritical instabilities in a two-component reaction-diffusion system.     

Stable squares and other oscillatory turing patterns in a reaction-diffusion model

We study the Brusselator reaction-diffusion model under conditions where the Hopf mode is supercritical and the Turing band is subcritical. Oscillating Turing patterns arise in the system when bulk oscillations lose their stability to spatial perturbations. Spatially uniform external periodic forcing can generate oscillating Turing patterns when both the Turing and Hopf modes are subcritical in the autonomous system. Most of the symmetric patterns show period doubling in both space and time. Patterns observed include squares, rhombi, stripes, and hexagons.     

Experimental evidence of localized oscillations in the photosensitive chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction

The interaction between Hopf and Turing modes has been the subject of active research in recent years. We present here experimental evidence of the existence of mixed Turing-Hopf modes in a two-dimensional system. Using the photosensitive chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction (CDIMA) and external constant background illumination as a control parameter, standing spots oscillating in amplitude and with hexagonal ordering were observed. Numerical simulations in the Lengyel-Epstein model for the CDIMA reaction confirmed the results.     

Pattern formation in superdiffusion Oregonator model

Pattern formations in an Oregonator model with superdiffusion are studied in two-dimensional(2D) numerical simulations. Stability analyses are performed by applying Fourier and Laplace transforms to the space fractional reaction–diffusion systems. Antispiral, stable turing patterns, and travelling patterns are observed by changing the diffusion index of the activator. Analyses of Floquet multipliers show that the limit cycle solution loses stability at the wave number of the primitive vector of the travelling hexagonal pattern. We also observed a transition between antispiral and spiral by changing the diffusion index of the inhibitor.     

Numerical simulation and analysis of complex patterns in a two-layer coupled reaction diffusion system

The resonance interaction between two modes is investigated using a two-layer coupled Brusselator model. When two different wavelength modes satisfy resonance conditions, new modes will appear, and a variety of superlattice patterns can be obtained in a short wavelength mode subsystem. We find that even though the wavenumbers of two Turing modes are fixed, the parameter changes have influences on wave intensity and pattern selection. When a hexagon pattern occurs in the short wavelength mode layer and a stripe pattern appears in the long wavelength mode layer, the Hopf instability may happen in a nonlinearly coupled model, and twinkling-eye hexagon and travelling hexagon patterns will be obtained. The symmetries of patterns resulting from the coupled modes may be different from those of their parents, such as the cluster hexagon pattern and square pattern. With the increase of perturbation and coupling intensity, the nonlinear system will convert between a static pattern and a dynamic pattern when the Turing instability and Hopf instability happen in the nonlinear system. Besides the wavenumber ratio and intensity ratio of the two different wavelength Turing modes, perturbation and coupling intensity play an important role in the pattern formation and selection. According to the simulation results, we find that two modes with different symmetries can also be in the spatial resonance under certain conditions, and complex patterns appear in the two-layer coupled reaction diffusion systems.     

Amplitude expansions for instabilities in populations of globally-coupled oscillators

We analyze the nonlinear dynamics near the incoherent state in a mean-field model of coupled oscillators. The population is described by a Fokker-Planck equation for the distribution of phases, and we apply center-manifold reduction to obtain the amplitude equations for steady-state and Hopf bifurcation from the equilibrium state with a uniform phase distribution. When the population is described by a native frequency distribution that is reflection-symmetric about zero, the problem has circular symmetry. In the limit of zero extrinsic noise, although the critical eigenvalues are embedded in the continuous spectrum, the nonlinear coefficients in the amplitude equation remain finite, in contrast to the singular behavior found in similar instabilities described by the Vlasov-Poisson equation. For a bimodal reflection-symmetric distribution, both types of bifurcation are possible and they coincide at a codimension-two Takens-Bogdanov point. The steady-state bifurcation may be supercritical or subcritical and produces a time-independent synchronized state. The Hopf bifurcation produces both supercritical stable standing waves and supercritical unstable traveling waves. Previous work on the Hopf bifurcation in a bimodal population by Bonilla, Neu, and Spigler and by Okuda and Kuramoto predicted stable traveling waves and stable standing waves, respectively. A comparison to these previous calculations shows that the prediction of stable traveling waves results from a failure to include all unstable modes.     

Doppler instability of antispiral waves in discrete oscillatory reaction-diffusion media

This paper investigates antispiral wave breakup phenomena in coupled two-dimensional FitzHugh-Nagumo cells with self-sustained oscillation via Hopf bifurcation.When the coupling strength of the active variable decreases to a critical value,wave breakup phenomenon first occurs in the antispiral core region where waves collide with each other and spontaneously break into spatiotemporal turbulence.Measurements reveal for the first time that this breakup phenomenon is due to the mechanism of antispiral Doppler instability.     

双层耦合介质中四边形图灵斑图的数值研究

采用双层线性耦合Lengyel-Epstein模型,在二维空间对简单正四边和超点阵四边形进行了数值分析.结果表明:当两子系统波数比N1时,随耦合强度的增大,基模的波矢空间共振形式发生改变,系统由简单六边形自发演化为结构复杂的新型斑图,除已报道的超六边形外,还获得了简单正四边和多种超点阵四边形,包括大小点、点线、白眼和环状超四边等斑图.当耦合系数α和β在一定范围内同步增大时,两子系统形成相同波长的Ⅰ型简单正四边;当α和β不同步增大时,由于两图灵模在短波子系统形成共振,系统斑图经相变发生Ⅰ型正四边→Ⅱ型正四边→超点阵四边形的转变;当系统失去耦合作用时,短波子系统波长为λ的Ⅰ型正四边斑图迅速失稳并形成波长为λ/N的Ⅰ型正四边,随模拟时间的延长,两子系统中不同波长的正四边均会经相变发生Ⅰ型正四边→Ⅱ型正四边→六边形的转变.     

Dynamic instabilities in scalar neural field equations with space-dependent delays

In this paper we consider a class of scalar integral equations with a form of space-dependent delay. These nonlocal models arise naturally when modelling neural tissue with active axons and passive dendrites. Such systems are known to support a dynamic (oscillatory) Turing instability of the homogeneous steady state. In this paper we develop a weakly nonlinear analysis of the travelling and standing waves that form beyond the point of instability. The appropriate amplitude equations are found to be the coupled mean-field Ginzburg-Landau equations describing a Turing-Hopf bifurcation with modulation group velocity of O(1). Importantly we are able to obtain the coefficients of terms in the amplitude equations in terms of integral transforms of the spatio-temporal kernels defining the neural field equation of interest. Indeed our results cover not only models with axonal or dendritic delays but also those which are described by a more general distribution of delayed spatio-temporal interactions. We illustrate the predictive power of this form of analysis with comparison against direct numerical simulations, paying particular attention to the competition between standing and travelling waves and the onset of Benjamin-Feir instabilities.     

Turing instability for a two-dimensional Logistic coupled map lattice

In this Letter, stability analysis is applied to a two-dimensional Logistic coupled map lattice with the periodic boundary conditions. The conditions of Turing instability are obtained, and various patterns can be exhibited by numerical simulations in the Turing instability region. For example, space-time periodic structures, periodic or quasiperiodic traveling wave solutions, stationary wave solutions, spiral waves, and spatiotemporal chaos, etc. have been observed. In particular, the different pattern structures have also been observed for same parameters and different initial values. That is, pattern structures also depend on the initial values. The similar patterns have also been seen in relevant references. However, the present Letter owes to pattern formation via diffusion-driven instabilities because the system is stable in the absence of diffusion.     

双层耦合非对称反应扩散系统中的超点阵斑图

通过线性耦合Brusselator模型和Lengyel-Epstein模型,数值研究了双层耦合非对称反应扩散系统中图灵模之间的相互作用以及斑图的形成机理.模拟结果表明,合适的波数比以及相同的对称性是两个图灵模之间达到空间共振的必要条件,而耦合强度则直接影响了图灵斑图的振幅大小.为了保证对称性相同,两个图灵模的本征值高度要位于一定的范围内.只有失稳模为长波模时,才能对另一个图灵模产生调制作用,并形成多尺度时空斑图.随着波数比的增加,短波模子系统依次经历黑眼斑图、白眼斑图以及时序振荡六边形斑图的转变.研究表明失稳图灵模与处于短波不稳定区域的高阶谐波模之间的共振是产生时序振荡六边形的主要原因.     

Chaotic Turing pattern formation in spatiotemporal systems

The problem of Turing pattern formation has attracted much attention in nonlinear science as well as physics, chemistry and biology. So far spatially ordered Turing patterns have been observed in stationary and oscillatory media only. In this paper we find that spatially ordered Turing patterns exist in chaotic extended systems. And chaotic Turing patterns are strikingly rich and surprisingly beautiful with their space structures. These findings are in sharp contrast with the intuition of pseudo-randomness of chaos. The richness and beauty of the chaotic Turing patterns are attributed to a large variety of symmetry properties realized by various types of self-organizations of partial chaos synchronizations.     

Pattern formation and bistability in flow between counterrotating cylinders

In the Taykor-Coutte experiment on fluid flow counterrotating cylinders, there is a bicritical point where the onset of instabilities to Taylor vortex flow (a steady-state bifurcation) and spiral vortex flow (a Hopf bifurcation) meet. The nonlinear mode interactions near this bicritical point are analyzed, exploiting the role of symmetry in the bifurcation theory, and with emphasis of the relevance to experiments, for a range of raduis ratios 0.43 ≤η≤0.98. The mechanism of the pattern formation is elucidated, and several new flow patterns and transitions are predicted, including wavy vortices, bistability, hysteresis, and up to 7 quasiperiodic flows.