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Electrical Dissipative Structures in Membrane‐Coupled Compartment Systems
Author(s) -
Feudel U.,
Feistel R.,
Ebeling W.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
annalen der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1521-3889
pISSN - 0003-3804
DOI - 10.1002/andp.19844960407
Subject(s) - dissipative system , simple (philosophy) , membrane , capacitor , diffusion , physics , compartment (ship) , classical mechanics , chemical physics , materials science , mechanics , chemistry , thermodynamics , voltage , quantum mechanics , philosophy , biochemistry , oceanography , epistemology , geology
Reaction‐diffusion systems with charged particles are studied. Conditions for the arising of electrical dissipative structures in a compartment system consisting of two boxes separated by a membrane are derived. The appearance of a polar dissipative structure is proved for a simple capacitor model in combination with a simple second order chemical kinetics which leads to an analytically solvable problem. Electrical dissipative structures can in principle be considered as non equilibrium electrical batteries. The theoretical efficiency of such batteries is estimated.