Regular wave propagation out of noise in chemical active media

A pacemaker, regularly emitting chemical waves, is created out of noise when an excitable photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium, strictly unable to autonomously initiate autowaves, is forced with a spatiotemporal patterned random illumination. These experimental observations are also reproduced...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Alonso Muñoz, Sergio, Sendiña Nadal, Irene, Pérez Muñuzuri, Vicente, Sancho, José M., Sagués i Mestre, Francesc
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/12813
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/12813
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Química física
Física estadística
Dinàmica de fluids
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Statistical physics
Fluid dynamics
Descrição
Resumo:A pacemaker, regularly emitting chemical waves, is created out of noise when an excitable photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium, strictly unable to autonomously initiate autowaves, is forced with a spatiotemporal patterned random illumination. These experimental observations are also reproduced numerically by using a set of reaction-diffusion equations for an activator-inhibitor model, and further analytically interpreted in terms of genuine coupling effects arising from parametric fluctuations. Within the same framework we also address situations of noise-sustained propagation in subexcitable media.