Pattern of Reaction Diffusion Front in Laminar Flows
Abstract
Autocatalytic reaction between reacted and unreacted species may propagate as solitary waves, namely at a constant front velocity and with a stationary concentration profile, resulting from a balance between molecular diffusion and chemical reaction. The effect of advective flow on the autocatalytic reaction between iodate and arsenous acid in cylindrical tubes and Hele-Shaw cells is analyzed experimentally and numerically using lattice BGK simulations. We do observe the existence of solitary waves with concentration profiles exhibiting a cusp and we delineate the eikonal and mixing regimes recently predicted.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0210050,
title = {Pattern of Reaction Diffusion Front in Laminar Flows},
author = {M. Leconte and J. Martin and N. Rakotomalala and D. Salin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0210050},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. This paper report on experiments and simulations in different geometries which test the theory of Boyd Edwards on flow advection of chemical reaction front which just appears in PRL (PRL Vol 89,104501, sept2002)