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Self-propulsion of cellular structures in chemically reacting mixtures
1Institute for Nonlinear Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan.
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|November 3, 2001
Abstract:
An alternative model of phase-separating reactive mixtures is proposed. In this model both phase separation and chemical reactions simultaneously take place and a traveling coherent structure can be formed through a Hopf bifurcation at a finite wave number. Numerical simulations show that, depending on the parameters, either lamellar or hexagonal structures travel at constant speeds in two-dimensional systems.