An industrial example of oscillations in an exothermic reactor

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cjce.20444/abstract

Oscillations can also occur in isothermal reactors with complex reaction kinetics...

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/lc/c2lc40649g

See Supplementary Material, movie showing oscillations,

see color changes at top of loop, flashing at bottom are peristaltic pumps
http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/lc/c2/c2lc40649g/c2lc40649g.avi

This is the reaction used in the micro reactor

This reactor had a pulsing feed so the kinetic oscillations are superimposed
over the feed pulsing and the limit cycle on right panel is complex

BZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMF4RjiITGM
Start at 1:24 - music
Briggs-Rauscher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gyzhvMLImg&nohtml5=False
Start at 1:50 - sound OK

Oregonator model of BZ reaction

We will discuss these approximations when we get to surface reaction

kinetics over catalyst surfaces

Results from my
Matlab program, which
is listed at the end
of the Grad CRE Notes
on this subject

Above are well-mixed reactors.

Now to thin layer of reactants approximating a 2D system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAqrRnKFHo&nohtml5=False
TURN OFF SOUND - MUSIC

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/237/641/37.full.pdf

But, before you talk to a biologist, there are other factors involved...
An introduction to cell differentiation. Induction similar to Turing's ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k4TFJe-ytk