Research Article
Synchronization Control in Reaction-Diffusion Systems:
Application to Lengyel-Epstein System
Adel Ouannas,
1
Mouna Abdelli,
1
Zaid Odibat,
2,3
Xiong Wang ,
4
Viet-Thanh Pham ,
5,6
Giuseppe Grassi,
7
and Ahmed Alsaedi
3
Department of Mathematics, University of Larbi Tebessi, Tebessa , Algeria
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt , Jordan
Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science,
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong , China
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Phenikaa Institute for Advanced Study (PIAS), Phenikaa University,
Yen Nghia, Ha Dong district, Hanoi , Vietnam
Phenikaa Research and Technology Institute (PRATI), A&A Green Phoenix Group, Hoang Ngan, Hanoi , Vietnam
Universita del Salento, Dipartimento Ingegneria Innovazione, Lecce, Italy
Correspondence should be addressed to Viet-anh Pham; thanh.phamviet@phenikaa-uni.edu.vn
Received 29 October 2018; Revised 4 January 2019; Accepted 10 February 2019; Published 24 February 2019
Guest Editor: Baltazar Aguirre-Hernandez
Copyright © 2019 Adel Ouannas et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
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Synchronization and control in high dimensional spatial-temporal systems have received increasing interest in recent years.
In this paper, the problem of complete synchronization for reaction-diffusion systems is investigated. Linear and nonlinear
synchronization control schemes have been proposed to exhibit synchronization between coupled reaction-diffusion systems.
Synchronization behaviors of coupled Lengyel-Epstein systems are obtained to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the
proposed control techniques.
1. Introduction
Synchronization of chaos is a phenomenon that may occur
when two, or more, chaotic systems adjust a given property
of their motion to a common behavior due to a coupling
or to a forcing. is phenomenon has attracted the interest
of many researchers from various fields due to its potential
applications in physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering
sciences since the pioneering work by Pecora and Carroll
[1]. Various synchronization types have been presented,
such as complete synchronization, phase synchronization,
lag synchronization, anticipated synchronization, function
projective synchronization, generalized synchronization, and
Q-S synchronization.
Most of the research efforts have been devoted to the
study of chaos control and chaos synchronization problems in
low-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems [2–10]. Syn-
chronizing high dimensional systems in which state variables
depend not only on time but also on the spatial position
remains a challenge. ese high dimensional systems are
generally modelled in spatial-temporal domain by partial
differential systems. Recently, the search for synchroniza-
tion has moved to high dimensional nonlinear dynamical
systems. Over the last years, some studies have investigated
synchronization of spatially extended systems demonstrating
spatiotemporal chaos such as the work presented in [11–32].
Synchronization dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems has
been studied in [11, 12] using phase reduction theory. It has
been shown that reaction-diffusion systems can exhibit syn-
chronization in a similar way to low-dimensional oscillators.
A general approach for synchronizing coupled partial differ-
ential equations with spatiotemporally chaotic dynamics by
driving the response system only at a finite number of space
points has been introduced in [13, 14]. Synchronization and
control for spatially extended systems based on local spatially
averaged coupling signals have been presented in [17]. e
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Complexity
Volume 2019, Article ID 2832781, 8 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2832781