Pattern dynamics in bidimensional oscillatory media with bistable inhomogeneities.
By means of numerical simulations, we study pattern dynamics in selected examples of inhomogeneous active media described by a reaction diffusion model of the activator-inhibitor type. We consider inhomogeneities corresponding to a variation in space of the (nonlinear) reaction characteristics of the system or the diffusion constants. Three different bidimensional systems are analyzed: an oscillatory medium in a square reactor with a circular central bistable domain, and cases of a bistable stripe immersed in an oscillatory medium in a trapezoidal reactor and in a rectangular reactor with inhomogeneous diffusion. The different types of complex behavior that arise in these systems are analyzed.
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Grupo de Física Estadística, Centro Atómico Bariloche (CNEA) and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA and UNC), 8400-San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. bouzat@cab.cnea.gov.ar
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