Development of Standing-wave Labyrinthine Patterns *

Experiments on a quasi-two-dimensional Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction-diffusion system, pe- riodically forced at approximately twice its natural frequency, exhibit resonant labyrinthine patterns that develop through two distinct mechanisms. In both cases, large amplitude labyrinthine patterns f orm that consist ofinterpenetrating fingers off requency-locked regions differing in phase by π. Analysis of a forced complex Ginzburg-Landau equation captures both mechanisms observed for the f ormation ofthe labyrinths in the BZ experiments: a transverse instability off ront structures and a nucleation of stripes from unlocked oscillations. The labyrinths are found in the experiments and in the model at a similar location in the forcing amplitude and frequency parameter plane.

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