화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.110, No.2, 1061-1063, 1999
Hysteresis in entropy production in a model chemical reaction exhibiting subcritical Hopf bifurcation
In the reversible Oregonator, a model exhibiting oscillations in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction, a bistability in the entropy production (free energy dissipation) between a steady state and an oscillatory state is reported in the neighborhood of a subcritical Hopf bifurcation. We identified this region in the past by a perturbation method. The numerical results present a thermodynamic formulation of multistable structures in a nonlinear dissipative system.