Asymptotic behaviour of initially separated A + B(static) → 0 reaction-diffusion systems

Zbigniew Koza

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 240, issue 3, 622-634

Abstract: We examine the long-time behaviour of A + B(static) → 0 reaction-diffusion systems with initially separated species A and B. All of our analysis is carried out for arbitrary (positive) values of the diffusion constant DA of particles A and initial concentrations a0 and b0 of A's and B's. We derive general formulae for the location of the reaction zone centre, the total reaction rate, and the concentration profile of species A outside the reaction zone. The general properties of the reaction zone are studied with a help of the scaling ansatz. Using the mean-field approximation we find the functional forms of ‘tails’ of the reaction rate R and the dependence of the width of the reaction zone on the external parameters of the system. We also study the change in the kinetics of the system with DB > 0 in the limit DB → 0. Our results are supported by numerical solutions of the mean-field reaction-diffusion equation.

Keywords: Reaction kinetics; Diffusion; Segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00011-3

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