Does the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Lead to a Steady State or Oscillations?

[Llewlyn]

I'm interested in oscillating chemical reaction, as Belousov-Zhabotinsky one.
Does it oscillate "forever" or it relax to a macroscopical stationary state?

Ll.

 

[Borek]

Not forever. Oscillations are a side effect of the compilcated mechanism of otherwise simple reaction - as long as there are reactants present reaction proceeds, at some point there is no more reactants - and it stops.

 

[Llewlyn]

So from the differential equations point of view: the attractor set of the system is not really a limit cycle but a fixed point that corrispond at the equilibrium state.

Limite cycle arises when i consider an infinity of reactants, does it sound right?

Ll.

 

[Borek]

You are probably right, I am not used to this nomenclature.