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This is a review of recent studies of extended oscillatory systems that are subjected to periodic temporal forcing. The periodic forcing breaks the continuous time translation symmetry and leaves a discrete set of stable uniform phase states. The multiplicity of phase states allows for front structures that shift the oscillation phase by π / n where n = 1 , 2 , … , hereafter π / n -fronts. The main concern here is with front instabilities and their implications on pattern formation. Most theoretical studies have focused on the 2 : 1 resonance where the system oscillates at half the driving frequency. All front solutions in this case are π -fronts. At high forcing strengths only stationary fronts exist. Upon decreasing the forcing strength the stationary fronts lose stability to pairs of counter-propagating fronts. The coexistence of counter-propagating fronts allows for traveling domains and spiral waves. In the 4 : 1 resonance stationary π -fronts coexist with π / 2 -fronts. At high forcing strengths the stationary π -fronts are stable and standing two-phase waves, consisting of successive oscillatory domains whose phases differ by π , , prevail. Upon decreasing the forcing strength the stationary π -fronts lose stability and decompose into pairs of propagating π / 2 -fronts. The instability designates a transition from standing two-phase waves to traveling four-phase waves. Analogous decomposition instabilities have been found numerically in higher 2 n : 1 resonances. The available theory is used to account for a few experimental observations made on the photosensitive Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction subjected to periodic illumination. Observations not accounted for by the theory are pointed out.
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Ehud Meron, 2000.
"Phase fronts and synchronization patterns in forced oscillatory systems,"
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi, vol. 4, pages 1-14, January.
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RePEc:hin:jnddns:697517
DOI: 10.1155/S1026022600000212
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