https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70007-1
Regular Article
Multiple scroll wave chimera states
1 Scientific Center for Medical and Biotechnical Research, NAS of Ukraine, Volodymyrska Str. 54, 01030 Kyiv, UKraine
2 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Volodymyrska Str. 60, 01030 Kyiv, UKraine
3 Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivska Str. 3, 01030 Kyiv, UKraine
a e-mail: maistren@nas.gov.ua
Received: 29 January 2017
Revised: 13 March 2017
Published online: 21 June 2017
We report the appearance of three-dimensional (3D) multiheaded chimera states that display cascades of self-organized spatiotemporal patterns of coexisting coherence and incoherence. We demonstrate that the number of incoherent chimera domains can grow additively under appropriate variations of the system parameters generating thereby head-adding cascades of the scroll wave chimeras. The phenomenon is derived for the Kuramoto model of N3 identical phase oscillators placed in the unit 3D cube with periodic boundary conditions, parameters being the coupling radius r and phase lag α. To obtain the multiheaded chimeras, we perform the so-called ‘cloning procedure’ as follows: choose a sample single-headed 3D chimera state, make appropriate scale transformation, and put some number of copies of them into the unit cube. After that, start numerical simulations with slightly perturbed initial conditions and continue them for a sufficiently long time to confirm or reject the state existence and stability. In this way it is found, that multiple scroll wave chimeras including those with incoherent rolls, Hopf links and trefoil knots admit this sort of multiheaded regeneration. On the other hand, multiple 3D chimeras without spiral rotations, like coherent and incoherent balls, tubes, crosses, and layers appear to be unstable and are destroyed rather fast even for arbitrarily small initial perturbations.
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