| Issue |
EPL
Volume 83, Number 3, August 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 30010 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/83/30010 | |
| Published online | 28 July 2008 | |
Evidence for Burgers' equation describing the untwisting of scroll rings
Florida State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4390, USA
Corresponding author: bmarts@chem.fsu.edu
Received:
3
March
2008
Accepted:
23
June
2008
We study the dynamics of rotating scroll waves in three-dimensional excitable systems. Experiments are carried out with the 1,4-cyclohexanedione Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction and wave patterns are measured using optical tomography. We create twisted scroll rings for which the rotation phase varies along their circular rotation backbone and measure the untwisting dynamics of the collapsing structures. Experimental data reveal the formation of an asymmetric, plateau-like phase profile with a growing region of leading phase and a shrinking region of lagging phase. The experimental data support a quantitative description in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation.
PACS: 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos / 82.40.Ck – Pattern formation in reactions with diffusion, flow and heat transfer / 82.40.Qt – Complex chemical systems
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