Convective Fingering of an Autocatalytic Reaction Front

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1996-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9603003v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

11 pages, RevTex with 3 eps figures. To be published in Phys Rev E, carey@phy.duke.edu, smorris@physics.utoronto.ca, prk@physi

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.53.6012

We report experimental observations of the convection-driven fingering instability of an iodate-arsenous acid chemical reaction front. The front propagated upward in a vertical slab; the thickness of the slab was varied to control the degree of instability. We observed the onset and subsequent nonlinear evolution of the fingers, which were made visible by a {\it p}H indicator. We measured the spacing of the fingers during their initial stages and compared this to the wavelength of the fastest growing linear mode predicted by the stability analysis of Huang {\it et. al.} [{\it Phys. Rev. E}, {\bf 48}, 4378 (1993), and unpublished]. We find agreement with the thickness dependence predicted by the theory.

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