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Control of Chemical Waves by Fluid Stretching and Compression
S Izumoto1, D M Escala1, J Heyman2
1Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit, CP231 <a href="https://ror.org/01r9htc13">Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)</a>, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract:
Oscillatory kinetics coupled to diffusion can produce traveling waves as observed in physical, chemical, and biological systems. We show experimentally that the properties of such waves can be controlled by fluid stretching and compression in a hyperbolic flow. Localized packet waves consisting in a train of parallel waves can develop due to a balance between diffusive broadening and advective compression along the unstable manifold. At a given distance from the stagnation point, the parallel waves transform into planelike waves and smeared waves where the transverse parabolic flow profile disturbs the patterns in the gap width. Once a wave packet has been obtained, it imprints a privileged direction that is maintained even if the compression rate is decreased. The width of the wave packet then scales inversely with the compression rate.
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