Periodic and Damped-Oscillatory Behavior of the Oregonator

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This Demonstration shows the oscillatory behavior of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction (BZ reaction), which was modeled by Field, Körös, and Noyes (FKN) in the early 1970s. This is now known as the Oregonator model. It is based on the following mechanism:
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Contributed by: Housam Binous, Brian G. Higgins, and Ahmed Bellagi (February 2013)
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[1] I. R. Epstein and J. A. Pojman, An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics: Oscillations, Waves, Patterns, and Chaos, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
[2] A. Barnett. "Math 53: Chaos! - Fall 2011." (Feb 21, 2013) www.math.dartmouth.edu/~m53f11.
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