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Kyoung-Ran Kim1, Kook Joe Shin, Dong J Lee
1School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea.
Abstract:
Complex oscillations in a simple model of the Briggs-Rauscher reaction mechanism in a continuously stirred tank reactor proposed by Kim et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 117, 2710 (2002)] are investigated numerically. The k(0)-[CH(2)(COOH)(2)](0) phase diagram is constructed first where k(0) is the flow rate and [...](0) is the input concentration. Within the region surrounded by the Hopf bifurcation curve, we find complex oscillation regions which are again separated from the regular oscillation region by the secondary Hopf bifurcation curves. Mixed mode oscillations with an incomplete Farey sequence, periodic-chaotic (or nonperiodic) sequence, and various types of burst oscillations are observed in complex oscillation regions. Also, chaotic burst oscillations, which are due to the transition from one kind of burst to another kind, are reported.
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