Forced convective structures in a differential-flow reactor

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The paper develops a detailed analysis of the boundary value problem for the Rovinsky-Menziger model of a two-component reaction-diffusion system, in which an autocatalyst (subject, additionally, to decay into an inert product) with a concentration \(b\) is allowed to diffuse and is simultaneously advected by a constant flow \(\phi\), while a reactant with a density \(a\), which is created at a constant rate \(\mu\), is immobilized: \[ \frac{\partial a}{\partial t} = \mu - ab^2, \quad \frac{\partial b}{\partial t} =\frac{\partial^2 b}{\partial x^2} + \phi \frac{\partial b}{\partial x} + ab^2 - b . \] A remarkable property of this model is that it allows one to obtain a pattern-forming nonoscillatory instability at a finite wavenumber under conditions essentially different from those which give rise to the Turing instability in reaction-diffusion systems. In this work, the authors demonstrate that development of a perturbation along the coordinate \(x\) may give rise to a specific convective instability. They display results of systematic simulations of boundary value problem for the equations above, that demonstrate a variety of advected waveforms created by perturbations added to the boundary condition at \(x=0\). The variety of the waveforms is especially rich in the case when the parameters are taken close to the border of the convective-instability region. The authors also study a dynamical system obtained from the equations above by the substitution \(a(x,t) = a(x - ct)\), \(b(x,t) = b(x - ct)\), producing a set of bifurcation diagrams for this system.











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