Partial synchronization in coupled chemical chaotic oscillators

  • Authors:
  • Jun-Wei Wang;Ai-Min Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510006, PR China;School of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the problem of partial synchronization in diffusively coupled chemical chaotic oscillators with zero-flux boundary conditions. The dynamical properties of the chemical system which oscillates with Uniform Phase evolution, yet has Chaotic Amplitudes (UPCA) are first discussed. By combining numerical and analytical methods, the impossibility of full global synchronization in a network of two or three coupled chemical oscillators is discovered. Mathematically, stable partial synchronization corresponds to convergence to a linear invariant manifold of the global state space. The sufficient conditions for exponential stability of the invariant manifold in a network of three coupled chemical oscillators are obtained via the nonlinear contraction principle.