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J Phys Chem A
; 120(41): 8006-8010, 2016 Oct 20.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27690433
RESUMO
The Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is the prototype oscillatory chemical system. We investigate here a new scaling of the Oregonator model of BZ chemical kinetics and use this scaling to elucidate fundamental properties of BZ dynamics. In particular, the Showalter-Noyes criterion for oscillation, that the product [BrO3-][H+] exceeds a critical value, arises naturally as a subcritical Hopf bifurcation in this setting, as does the reduction to a two-variable model. We thus provide chemical explanations of the role of time scales in the BZ reaction.