An Investigation of Deterministic Chemical Reactions and Their Stability

In this chapter, we discuss deterministic chemical reactions in the closed and open systemsOpen systems. We attempt to understand the stabilityStability of stationary statesStationary states in both situations using the excess entropyEntropy production, which we discuss in Chap.  1 . Then we investigate the behavior of the reactions using numerical solutions. We use three examples to illustrate that the deterministic formulations of chemical reactions lead to complex behavior patterns even without potential noise in systems. In open systems, reactions can easily be oscillatory depending on the reaction rate coefficients and initial conditions. However, the existence of nonequilibrium stationary statesNonequilibrium stationary states (NESSs) (NESSs) in dissipative structuresDissipative structures is well documented, the analysis presented here is heuristic to show the complexities prior to delving into stochastic situations in next two chapters.