Published July 1996 | Version v1
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Breathing Spots in a Reaction-Diffusion System

Creators

  • 1. The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research and The Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University, Sede Boker Campus 84990 (Israel)
  • 2. Center for Nonlinear Studies and T-7, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 3. Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 (United States)

Description

A quasi-2-dimensional stationary spot in a disk-shaped chemical reactor is observed to bifurcate to an oscillating spot when a control parameter is increased beyond a critical value. Further increase of the control parameter leads to the collapse and disappearance of the spot. Analysis of a bistable activator-inhibitor model indicates that the observed behavior is a consequence of interaction of the front with the boundary near a parity breaking front bifurcation. copyright 1996 The American Physical Society

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 190-193.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
27073975
Subject category
S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BIFURCATION; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; OSCILLATIONS; SPIRAL CONFIGURATION
Descriptors DEC
CONFIGURATION