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Control of spiral instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems

Abstract Spiral instabilities and their controls are investigated in a reaction-diffusion system using the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Two spiral instabilities, the long-wavelength instability and the Doppler instability, are reported, which can lead to spatiotemporal chaos. The long-wavelength instability occurs in an oscillatory regime, while the Doppler instability occurs in an excitable regime. To control these two instabilities, two different strategies are proposed according to their defect-generating mechanisms. For the long-wavelength instability in an oscillatory system, the control can be achieved by introducing a local pacemaker, which emits stable traveling waves to sweep off the unstable spiral defects. For the Doppler instability, the control can be achieved by trapping the spiral tip with a local area of higher diffusion coefficient than its surroundings.