Interfacial instabilities driven by chemical reactions
- Pereira, Antônio Luiz A.
- Kalliadasis, Serafim
- Trevelyan, Philip
- Thiele, Uwe
Publication date
January 2009
DOI Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC ISSN
1951-6355 Citation count (estimate)
3Abstract
We investigate the interaction of thin films with chemical reactions by using as a model system a horizontal film with a reactive mixture of insoluble surfactants on its free surface. The reaction is modeled by a bistable/excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) prototype. The chemical reaction can destabilize the film leading to the propagation of solitary pulses on its free surface. © EDP Sciences and Springer 2009.SCOPUS: cp.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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