Chemical reaction- diffusion systems

Spatially extended chemical reactions are systems where the observation of linear instabilities and different types of pattern formation in non-linear reaction-diffusion equations is well-controlled. The combination of reactions with different instabilities together with advection may produce new pattern formation mechanisms. It permits the study of multi-scale problems where two instabilities appear simultaneously in a co-dimensional point at different scales. On the other hand, chemical waves in extended chemical excitable media, e.g. the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction or catalytic oxidation in metal surfaces, can reproduce some of the particularities of electrical wave propagation in cardiac tissue

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Traveling waves and global oscillations triggered by attractive molecular interactions
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Control of reaction-diffusion patterns by asymmetric nonlocal coupling
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