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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 33: Poster II

DY 33.41: Poster

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 17:00–19:00, Poster C

Local coupling of non-linear oscillators studied in the Bhelousov-Zhabotinsky reaction — •Claudia Lenk1, Mario Einax2, Philipp Maass2, and Michael J Köhler11Institut für Chemie und Biotechnik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany — 2Fachbereich Physik, Universität Osnabrück, Germany

Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems is important in many areas as, e.g., the embryonic development, catalytic activity or population dynamics. These systems are mostly constituted of many coupled subunits, like the cells of the embryo or catalyst nanoparticles. To get insight into the influence of these modular structure onto the emerging excitation patterns we conduct experiments of the Bhelousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (BZR) in a Nafion membran with a catalyst distribution in form of a micro spots pattern and compare the BZR waves with numerical calculations of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations.

The influence of the catalyst spot size, their distance and shape on the coupling strength was investigated. We observe a bifurcation into two different patterns, i.e. a spiral wave and a target pattern, in dependence of the distance of catalyst spots. Thereby the initial conditions control which pattern occurs. In further studies, we will investigate the possibility to predict which pattern occurs if only the initial conditions are known.

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