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Fabrication and Testing of Microfluidic Optomechanical Oscillators
Published on: May 29, 2014
Size- and position-dependent bifurcations of chemical microoscillators in confined geometries
1Center for Nonlinear Chemistry, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 14 A. Nevskogo St., Kaliningrad 236041, Russia.
Abstract:
The present theoretical study deals with microparticles (beads) that contain an immobilized Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction catalyst. In the theoretical experiment, a BZ bead is immersed in a small water droplet that contains all of the BZ reaction reagents but no catalyst. Such heterogeneous reaction-diffusion BZ systems with the same BZ reactant concentrations demonstrate various dynamic modes, including steady state and low-amplitude, high-amplitude, and mixed-mode oscillations (MMOs). The emergence of such dynamics depends on the sizes of the bead and water droplet, as well as on the location of the bead inside the droplet. MMO emergence is explained by time-delayed positive feedback in combination with a canard phenomenon. If two identical BZ beads are immersed in the same droplet, many different dynamic modes including chaos are observed.
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