THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERFECT MIXING IN AUTOCATALYTIC CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL-SYSTEMS

Authors
EPSTEIN IR
Citation
Ir. Epstein, THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERFECT MIXING IN AUTOCATALYTIC CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL-SYSTEMS, Nature, 374(6520), 1995, pp. 321-327
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Nature → ACNP
ISSN journal
00280836
Volume
374
Issue
6520
Year of publication
1995
Pages
321 - 327
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-0836(1995)374:6520<321:TCOIMI>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
When chemical reactions whose rate increases with the concentration of a product species are carried out in imperfectly mixed systems, a var iety of complex behaviours can occur. These phenomena, which have rele vance for biological processes as well, include chaotic and stochastic behaviour and selection of one final state over an equally probable a lternative.