Reaction-diffusion travelling waves in the acidic nitrate-ferroin reaction

DOI10.1007/BF01165755MaRDI QIDQ1360596zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. H. Merkin, M. Sadiq

Publication date 29 January 1998

Published in Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01165755

zbMATH Keywords

permanent-form travelling wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Review text

The authors consider a reaction-diffusion system, involving the concentrations of the ferroin and acidic nitrate denoted \(u\), \(v\), respectively. This system is: \[ {\partial u\over\partial t}= D_u {\partial^2 u\over\partial x^2}- {2kuv\over\overline\beta+ u},\quad {\partial v\over\partial t}= D_v {\partial^2v\over\partial x^2}+{kuv\over\overline\beta+ u}, \] where \(D_u\), \(D_v\), are diffusion coefficients and \(k\), \(\overline\beta\) are specific constants. The associated initial and boundary conditions are: \(u=u_0\), \(t=0\), \(-\infty<x<\infty\), \[ v=\begin{cases} v_0g(x), &|x|<\ell,\\ 0, &|x|>\ell,\end{cases}\;t=0,\;u\to u_0,\;v\to 0\quad\text{as }|x|\to \infty,\;t\geq 0, \] where \(u_0\) and \(v_0\) are constants and \(g(x)\) is a continuous differentiable function on \(-\ell<x<\ell\), with a maximum value of unity. The behaviour of solutions of the form \(u=u(y)\), \(v=v(y)\), \(y=\sqrt{(k/D_v)}x- ckt\), \(c>0\) (a permanent-form travelling wave) for the large time and \(|y|\to\infty\) is analyzed.

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