Chemical Kinetics on Surfaces: A Singular Limit of a Reaction‐Diffusion System
Author(s) -
Gadi Fibich,
Israel Gannot,
A. Hammer,
Steven Schochet
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
siam journal on mathematical analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.882
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1095-7154
pISSN - 0036-1410
DOI - 10.1137/050633767
Subject(s) - mathematics , limit (mathematics) , diffusion , reaction–diffusion system , kinetics , mathematical analysis , chemical reaction , chemical kinetics , thermodynamics , statistical physics , chemistry , classical mechanics , physics , biochemistry
We show that chemical kinetics relations can be used to describe processes that involve binding and dissociation reactions that take place on surfaces. From a mathematical per- spective, the problem we study is a singular limit of a reaction-diffusion system in which one of the variables concentrates on a lower-dimensional set in the limit, while the other continues to diffuse in a fixed domain.
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