Noise-induced turbulence in nonlocally coupled oscillators

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Mar;75(3 Pt 2):036209. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.036209. Epub 2007 Mar 14.

Abstract

We demonstrate that nonlocally coupled limit-cycle oscillators subject to spatiotemporally white Gaussian noise can exhibit a noise-induced transition to turbulent states. After illustrating noise-induced turbulent states with numerical simulations using two representative models of limit-cycle oscillators, we develop a theory that clarifies the effective dynamical instabilities leading to the turbulent behavior using a hierarchy of dynamical reduction methods. We determine the parameter region where the system can exhibit noise-induced turbulent states, which is successfully confirmed by extensive numerical simulations at each level of the reduction.