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IV. The case of three species.

We now apply the method described in Sec. II to a particular case of interest: the one in which three species are involved in the fast reaction, two of which do not diffuse. In this case it is convenient to use as our species Q either one of the non-diffusing species. So, we have tex2html_wrap_inline2090tex2html_wrap_inline2092 and Q and tex2html_wrap_inline2356 . For simplicity, from now on we will not write the dependence of tex2html_wrap_inline1966 and tex2html_wrap_inline1968 on the concentrations explicitly. Thus, Eqs. (36) read

   eqnarray623

where we have defined

  eqnarray646

and tex2html_wrap_inline2120 , according to (22), is given by

  equation670

A simple algebraic manipulation yields, for tex2html_wrap_inline2130 :

  equation681

where tex2html_wrap_inline2366 . We can then define the rescaled diffusion coefficient:

  equation702

In certain cases there are conserved quantities in the system that allow to write tex2html_wrap_inline2368 as a function of tex2html_wrap_inline2130 . In particular, this is the case for the situation previously discussed in the literature in which the fast reaction is of the form tex2html_wrap_inline2372 . Then, the original set of evolution equations (1)-(3) read:

eqnarray717

so that the quantity tex2html_wrap_inline2374 remains constant during the whole evolution. Thus, we conclude that tex2html_wrap_inline2376 also remains constant. Setting tex2html_wrap_inline2378 and using Eq. (51), which in this case reads tex2html_wrap_inline2380 , we obtain that tex2html_wrap_inline2382 . Therefore, the rescaled diffusion coefficient (57) can be rewritten as:

  equation745

which, in the limit of tex2html_wrap_inline2384 reduces to the values obtained in gif.
 


Silvina Ponce Dawson

Fri Aug 27 03:50:25 ART 1999