Abstract
Certain noncatalytic exothermic chemical reactions of the type solid-solid characterized by high values of activation energy and heat of reaction represent an example of strongly nonlinear chemically reacting systems. In these systems different types of propagating waves can be observed such as constant pattern, planar pulsating, and rotating waves. Numerical simulations in two and three spatial dimensions predict, qualitatively, the same behavior as experimentally observed. For geometrically large systems multihead spinning or erratic waves occur, which bifurcate from a planar pulsating front. In nonadiabatic systems the spinning wave is more resistant to extinction than the one-dimensional planar pulsating front.
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