The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyson, J.J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1976.
Edition:1st ed. 1976.
Series:Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 10
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I. Preliminaries
  • Chemical kinetics
  • Ordinary differential equations
  • Reaction-diffusion equations
  • II. Chemistry of the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction
  • Overall reaction
  • The FKN mechanism
  • III. The Oregonator
  • The model, steady states and stability
  • Existence of periodic solutions
  • Limit cycles in the relaxation-oscillator regime
  • Hard self-excitation
  • IV. Chemical waves
  • Kinematic waves
  • Trigger waves
  • Velocity of propagation of trigger waves
  • Scroll waves
  • Plane wave and spiral wave solutions of reactiondiffusion equations
  • Appendix. The Zhabotinskii-Zaikin-Korzukhin-Kreitser model
  • References.