title: Spatially "chaotic" solutions in reaction-convection models and their bifurcations to moving waves.
abstract: The emergence of stationary spatially multiperiodic or even spatially chaotic patterns is analyzed for a simple model of convection, reaction, and conduction in a cross-flow reactor. Spatial patterns emerge much like dynamic temporal patterns in a mixed system of the same kinetics. Moving waves are formed in an unbounded system but they are transformed into stationary spatially inhomogeneous patterns in a bounded system. The sequence of period doubling bifurcations is determined numerically. The incorporation of a slow nondiffusing inhibitor leads to chaotic spatiotemporal patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32 000, Israel.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nekhamkina
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sheintuch