Turbulence control by developing a target wave in the CGLE system.docVIP

Turbulence control by developing a target wave in the CGLE system Minxi Jiang Department of physics, Peking University Abstract A new method is developed to control spatiotemporal chaos in the 2-D complex Ginzburg-Landau equation described system. We generate a target wave in the system where spiral wave is absolutely unstable by introducing a localized inhomogeneity in a small area. With appropriately chosen parameters, the target wave continuously invades the surrounding chaos and finally sweeps all fluctuations to the system boundary. An explanation of the method is brought forward. The control of spatiotemporal chaos leading to the control of turbulence is a challenging problem which has attracted much attention for more than one century. Recently work [1, 2] has largely been focused on a subclass of spatiotemporal chaos whose characteristics have been observed in the computer simulations of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) [3]. The cubic CGLE is a universal amplitude equation which describes extended media in the vicinity of homogeneous hopf bifurcation. It exhibits spatiotemporal chaos in a wide range of the parameters.The mechanism relies on the existence of unstable topological defects which nucleate and annihilate spontaneously and disorderly, and spiral waves emitted from these defects are also unstable and break quickly. In previous work, the main idea of controlling these chaotic behaviors is to find and trace one such an unstable defect and stabilize it by applying local influence. In Ref. [1], Aranson et al. suggested a method by developing a spiral wave with local feedback injection. The method was greatly developed by Hong Zhang et al [2]. They use a non-feedback control approach and successfully suppress the turbulence even when the spiral wave is absolutely unstable. In this paper, we investigate a new method of spatiotemporal chaos control in CGLE. The main advantage of our work compared with previous ones is that the realization of ch