Issue 34, 2014

Spatially organized partial synchronization through the chimera mechanism in a network of electrochemical reactions

Abstract

Detailed experimental and numerical results are presented about the pattern formation mechanism of spatially organized partially synchronized states in a networked chemical system with oscillatory metal dissolution. Numerical simulations of the reaction system are used to identify experimental conditions (heterogeneity, network topology, and coupling time-scale) under which the chemical reactions, which take place in a network, are split into coexisting coherent and incoherent domains through the chimera mechanism. Experiments are carried out with a network of twenty electrodes arranged in a ring with seven nearest neighbor couplings in both directions along the ring. The patterns are characterized by analyzing the oscillation frequencies and entrainments to the mean field of the phases of oscillations. The chimera state forms from two domains of elements: the chimera core in which the elements have identical frequencies and are entrained to their corresponding mean field and the chimera shell where the elements exhibit desynchrony with each other and the mean field. The experiments point out the importance of low level of heterogeneities (e.g., surface conditions) and optimal level of coupling strength and time-scale as necessary components for the realization of the chimera state. For systems with large heterogeneities, a ‘remnant’ chimera state is identified where the pattern is strongly affected by the presence of frequency clusters. The exploration of dynamical features with networked reactions could open up ways for identification of novel types of patterns that cannot be observed with reaction diffusion systems (with localized interactions) or with reactions under global constraints, coupling, or feedback.

Graphical abstract: Spatially organized partial synchronization through the chimera mechanism in a network of electrochemical reactions

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 May 2014
Accepted
08 Jul 2014
First published
14 Jul 2014

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 18360-18369

Author version available

Spatially organized partial synchronization through the chimera mechanism in a network of electrochemical reactions

M. Wickramasinghe and I. Z. Kiss, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 18360 DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02249A

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