title: Noise-sustained structures in differential-flow reactors with autocatalytic kinetics.
abstract: We have studied the formation of noise-sustained structures in a differential-flow reactor with cubic autocatalytic kinetics (the Gray-Scott model). In this system the interplay between advection, diffusion, reaction, and noise fluctuations leads to the formation of noise-sustained patterns in the key species. Numerical integration in one and two spatial dimensions shows that the structures are nonlocally cross correlated. Near threshold, the observed correlation is related to the properties of the convectively unstable critical modes.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Deán Funes 3350, (7600) Mar del Plata, Argentina. bvhuefte@mdp.edu.ar
authors.forename: Bernardo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: von Haeften
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Izús