Microscopic chaos and chemical reactions

Pierre Gaspard

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 263, issue 1, 315-328

Abstract: Microscopic chaos is the dynamical randomness in the collisional motion of atoms and molecules in fluids. This chaos animates different mesoscopic stochastic phenomena and, in particular, the reaction-diffusion processes. For different chemical reactions, we show how the reaction rate can be related to the characteristic quantities of chaos like the Lyapunov exponents and the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy which are associated with a fractal repeller. In spatially extended deterministic chaotic systems, chemio-hydrodynamic modes with exponential decay are shown to exist as Schwartz-type distributions associated with Pollicott-Ruelle resonances. The problem of entropy production is also discussed.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00504-4

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