Period doubling cascade in glow discharges: local versus global differential conductivity.
Short planar glow discharges coupled to a resistive layer exhibit a wealth of spontaneous spatiotemporal patterns. Due to similarities with other pattern forming systems that are described by reaction-diffusion models, several authors have tried to derive such models from discharge physics. We investigate the temporal oscillations of the discharge system and find a cascade of period doubling events. This shows that the inner structure of the discharge is more complex than can be described by a two-component reaction-diffusion-model with negative differential conductivity. We also derive an alternative reduced model.
Sijacić
Danijela D
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CWI, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Rafatov
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