Resonant phase patterns in a reaction-diffusion system

Phys Rev Lett. 2000 May 1;84(18):4240-3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4240.

Abstract

Resonance regions similar to the Arnol'd tongues found in single oscillator frequency locking are observed in experiments using a spatially extended periodically forced Belousov-Zhabotinsky system. We identify six distinct 2:1 subharmonic resonant patterns and describe them in terms of the position-dependent phase and magnitude of the oscillations. Some experimentally observed features are also found in numerical studies of a forced Brusselator reaction-diffusion model.