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Lyapunov Exponents And The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillator: An Interactive Computational Approach, Matthew W. Eskew, Reuben H. Simoyi
Lyapunov Exponents And The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillator: An Interactive Computational Approach, Matthew W. Eskew, Reuben H. Simoyi
Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations
The Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) chemical oscillator is the most studied oscillator. It has been modelled on the basis of single-step mechanisms which have been continuously refined since the seminal manuscript by Field, Koros and Noyes in 1972. This manuscript reports on a unique way of modelling the global dynamics of the oscillator by assuming that the BZ oscillator has shown chaotic behaviour. The unique mathematical definition of chaos is very stringent, and, in this manuscript, we attempt to trace this unique exotic behaviour by the use of ‘onto’ maps of the interval onto itself which are known to exhaustively show a …