Numerical study on Bray-Liebhafsky oscillatory reaction: Bifurcations

Abstract

The time series obtained by numerical simulations of the model of the Bray-Liebhafsky oscillatory reaction is analyzed under the continuously fed well stirred tank reactor (CSTR) conditions, with the aim to find bifurcation points in which system of Bray- Liebhafsky oscillatory reaction transforms from stable to unstable state and vice versa. Types of bifurcation points, supercritical and subcritical Andronov-Hopf bifurcation and saddle-loop bifurcation are determined from characteristic scaling laws.