Model of a spatially inhomogeneous one-dimensional active medium

We investigate the dynamics of one-dimensional discrete models of a one-component active medium analytically. The models represent spatially inhomogeneous diffusively concatenated systems of one-dimensional piecewise-continuous maps. The discontinuities (the defects) are interpreted as the differences in the parameters of the maps constituting the mode. Two classes of defects are considered spatially periodic defects and localized defects. The area of regular dynamics in the space of the parameters is estimated analytically. For the model with a periodic inhomogeneity, an exact analytic partition into domains with regular and with chaotic types of behavior is found. Numerical results are obtained for the model with a single defect. The possibility of the occurrence of each behavior type for the system as a whole is investigated.