A Parametric Analysis of the Basic Nonlinear Models of the Catalytic Reactions

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334 Russia

^⋆ Corresponding author. E-mail: vibykov@mail.ru

Abstract

A series of the simplest thermokinetic models, in which the kinetic subsystem corresponds to traditional catalytic mechanisms, such as the Eley–Rideal mono- and bimolecular mechanisms and the Langmuir–Hinshelwood mechanism, and autocatalytic mechanisms characterized by multiplicity of steady states and autooscillations in the kinetic region, were considered. The method of continuation along a parameter was used for studying these basic models of thermokinetics. The parametric analysis performed allowed us to identify parameter regions characterized by critical effects (multiplicity of steady states and autooscillations).