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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 116, Issue 13, Pages 5666-5672Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1456023
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The generation of convective flow by a chemical wave was studied experimentally on a mm-sized droplet of Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction medium. A propagating chemical wave causes a transient increase in interfacial tension, and this local change in interfacial tension induces convection. The observed flow profile was reproduced with a numerical simulation by introducing the transient increase in interfacial tension to a modified Navier-Stokes equation coupled with a chemical kinetic equation; a modified Oregonator. We also observed the periodic motion of a BZ droplet floating on an oil phase. Such periodic motion is attributed to the rhythmic change in interfacial tension. The observed periodic convective motion coupled with a chemical reaction is discussed in relation to chemo-mechanical energy transduction under isothermal conditions. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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