6.7 Synchronization of Space-Temporal Chaos 123
recting the reader to the reviews [130, 148]. We will only consider the possibility
of space-temporal chaos synchronization [149] on an example of an autocatalytic
model, demonstrating chaos [150],
∂u
1
∂t
=−u
1
v
2
1
+a(1 −u
1
) + D
u
∇
2
u
1
,
∂v
1
∂t
= u
1
v
2
1
−(a + b)v
1
+ D
v
∇
2
v
1
, (6.53)
where u
1
and v
1
are reactive and activator concentrations respectively, a, b are reac-
tion parameters, D
u
, D
v
are diffusion constants. We will consider the system (6.53)
as driving in relation to the analogous system
∂u
2
∂t
=−u
2
v
2
2
+a(1 −u
2
) + D
u
∇
2
u
2
,
∂v
2
∂t
= u
2
v
2
2
−(a + b)v
2
+ D
v
∇
2
v
2
+ f (x, t) . (6.54)
Suppose v
2
(t − 0) is the value of v
2
immediately before time moment t
2
.The
driving function f (x, t) acts on the system in the following way. Let L be the
linear dimension of the chemical reactor, L = NX, t = kT, T > 0, X > 0,
N, k are integer numbers. In every moment of time t = kT in N spatial points
x = 0, X, 2X,...,(N −1)X the driving function transits simultaneously
v
2
(kT − 0) → v
2
(kT) = v
2
(kT − 0) +ε
[
v
1
(kT) −v
2
(kT − 0)
]
. (6.55)
In the time moments t = kT the systems (6.53) and (6.54) are not connected and
evolve independently. We note that for X = T = 0, ε = 1 such driving reduces
to the full replacement considered above. Motivation to select driving in the form
(6.55) is determined by two reasons. On one hand we intend to achieve synchroniza-
tion by controlling only a finite number N of spatial points, and on the other hand,
we want to use time-discrete perturbation to do this.
The results of numerical simulation of evolution described by (6.53), (6.54) are
presented in Fig. 6.14. For integration, the Euler scheme was implemented with
M = 256 spatial nodes and time step equal to Δt = 0.05. The following parameter
values were chosen:
a = 0.028, b = 0.053, D
v
= 1.0 ×10
−5
, D
u
= 2D
v
, L = 2.5 .
Figure 6.14a demonstrates the space-temporal evolution u
1
(x, t), described by
(6.53), with initial conditions u(x) = 1, v(x) = 0.
To simulate the partial derivative equation systems (6.53), (6.54) with the con-
dition (6.55) the following parameter values were taken: ε = 0.2, T = 20Δt,
X =
(
8/256
)
L. In other words, the perturbation acted on 32 of 256 spatial
nodes. It appeared that there is a critical value X
cr
, such that for all X < X
cr