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Waves and patterns in reaction–diffusion systems. Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction in water-in-oil microemulsions

V. K. Vanag<sup>ab

a</sup> Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
^b Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University

Abstract: Advances in nonequilibrium pattern formation in reaction–diffusion systems are reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on patterns found in the spatially extended Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction dispersed in aerosol OT water-in-oil microemulsions (BZ–AOT system): Turing patterns, packet and standing waves, antispirals and segmented spirals, and accelerating waves and oscillons. All experimental results are explained theoretically and reproduced in computer simulations.

PACS: 05.45.-a, 05.65.+b, 82.40.Bj, 82.40.Ck

Received: September 18, 2003
Revised: December 20, 2003

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0174.200409d.0991

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2004, 47:9, 923–941

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