Authors

X. F. Chen;Y. W. Qi

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Abbreviated Journal Title

SIAM J. Math. Anal.

Keywords

cubic autocatalysis; travelling wave; minimum speed; reaction diffusion; ISOTHERMAL CHEMICAL-SYSTEM; CUBIC AUTOCATALYSIS; PROPAGATING FRONTS; STABILITY; EQUATIONS; RATES; EXISTENCE; DECAY; ACID; Mathematics, Applied

Abstract

This article studies propagating wave fronts in an isothermal chemical reaction A + 2B - > 3B involving two chemical species, a reactant A and an autocatalyst B, whose diffusion coefficients, D-A and D-B, are unequal due to different molecular weights and/or sizes. Explicit bounds v(*) and v* that depend on D-B/D-A are derived such that there is a unique travelling wave of every speed v > = v* and there does not exist any travelling wave of speed v < v*. New to the literature, it is shown that v(*) proportional to v* proportional to D-B/D-A when D-B = v(min). Estimates on v(min) significantly improve those of early works. The framework is built upon general isothermal autocatalytic chemical reactions A + nB - > (n + 1)B of arbitrary order n > = 1.

Journal Title

Siam Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volume

39

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

437

Last Page

448

WOS Identifier

WOS:000249318800004

ISSN

0036-1410

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