Chananate Uthaisar. Dynamics of rigidly rotating spiral waves under local and non-local feedback control in the light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction . Master's Degree(Chemical Physics). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2005.
Dynamics of rigidly rotating spiral waves under local and non-local feedback control in the light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Abstract:
The light-sensitive Ru(bpy)2+
3 -catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is
used to observe the dynamics of a rigidly rotating spiral wave. This version of the BZ
reaction can be effectively manipulated by applying external illumination with local or
non-local feedback algorithms. For the dynamics of the spiral wave under local feedback
control, each light pulse is applied at the moment that corresponds to the passage of
the wave front through a particular measuring point. The light pulses induce a drift
of the spiral wave core away from the measuring point and finally along circular orbits
centred at this point. The trajectory of the spiral wave describes a resonance attractor.
For a small distance (less than 0.15 of the spiral wavelength) between the measuring
point and the initial location of the unperturbed spiral wave, a resonance attractor with
hypocycloidal shape is observed, whereas for a larger distance an epicycloidal resonance
attractor occurs. The size of the attractors can be changed by introducing a time delay
into the feedback loop. When the time delay in the feedback loop becomes relatively
long, the shape of the hypocycloidal resonance attractors deviates strongly from circular
orbits. Experimental results are compared with an earlier developed theory on the
resonance attractor.
Non-local feedback that computes the feedback signal proportional to the average
wave activity, taken over a sensory domain that covers only part of the reaction layer,
is introduced. In this work, the illumination intensity is proportional to the average wave
activity within a square-shaped sensory domain of the reaction layer. The investigations
show a broad spectrum of dynamical responses which result in square-shaped trajectories
of the spiral tip, including reflections at the virtual walls. Experimental results
show that the geometry of the sensory domain is crucial in determining the size and
shape of the tip trajectories that are asymptotically reached.