title: Oscillations and chaos in CO+O(2) combustion.
abstract: The gas-phase reaction between carbon monoxide and oxygen (in the presence of small amounts of hydrogen) shows bistability and oscillatory behavior. Typically, the oscillatory ignition has a period-1 relaxation waveform. The limit cycle is born at a saddle-node loop and terminates via a supercritical Hopf bifurcation. For a mean residence time of 8 s there is a period-doubling to a period-2 solution followed by period-halving to quasisinusoidal period-1 oscillations. At longer residence times, more period-doublings forming a full cascade to chaos with subsequent periodic windows are observed. The chaotic attractor has an underlying single-humped next maximum map.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: B. R.
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: J. F.
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: S. K.
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Scott