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Breathing spiral waves in the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system
Igal Berenstein1, Alberto P Muñuzuri, Lingfa Yang
1Group of Complex Systems, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Abstract:
Breathing spiral waves are observed in the oscillatory chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system. The breathing develops within established patterns of multiple spiral waves after the concentration of polyvinyl alcohol in the feeding chamber of a continuously fed, unstirred reactor is increased. The breathing period is determined by the period of bulk oscillations in the feeding chamber. Similar behavior is obtained in the Lengyel-Epstein model of this system, where small amplitude parametric forcing of spiral waves near the spiral wave frequency leads to the formation of breathing spiral waves in which the period of breathing is equal to the period of forcing.
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