Bistable system, relative stability

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The first experiment on the relative stability in a bistable multi-variable system is reported in [36]. The apparatus consists of two continuously stirred tank reactors (CSTR), and a different stable stationary state of a bistable bromate-ferroin reaction is established in each CSTR with same set of influx of reactant solutions into the reactors. The reaction solution from each tank is then pumped quickly into a laminar flow reactor (LFR) where the solutions... 

A recently developed model to explain this intermittency observed in the population fluctuation assumes a bistable potential whose two minima are the HDL and LDL [12]. By definition, these two forms differ by their specific volumes HDL has relatively lower specific volume than LDL. Now, natural total volume fluctuations of the system at ambient pressure modify the underlying bistable potential as a larger volume stabilizes the LDL state and vice versa. If one assumes that volume fluctuation is periodic in nature, then the effective potential of the system also modulates periodically with the same frequency as volume fluctuation. 

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