Chaotic mixing induced transitions in reaction–diffusion systems

DOI10.1063/1.1476949zbMATH Open1080.35515arXivnlin/0202055OpenAlexW3102756049WikidataQ53861350 ScholiaQ53861350MaRDI QIDQ5706299FDOQ5706299

Authors: Zoltán Neufeld, Peter H. Haynes, T. Tél 

Publication date: 7 November 2005

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the evolution of a localized perturbation in a chemical system with multiple homogeneous steady states, in the presence of stirring by a fluid flow. Two distinct regimes are found as the rate of stirring is varied relative to the rate of the chemical reaction. When the stirring is fast localized perturbations decay towards a spatially homogeneous state. When the stirring is slow (or fast reaction) localized perturbations propagate by advection in form of a filament with a roughly constant width and exponentially increasing length. The width of the filament depends on the stirring rate and reaction rate but is independent of the initial perturbation. We investigate this problem numerically in both closed and open flow systems and explain the results using a one-dimensional "mean-strain" model for the transverse profile of the filament that captures the interplay between the propagation of the reaction-diffusion front and the stretching due to chaotic advection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0202055

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20) Infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L99)

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