Oregonator sensitivity analysis

While the results obtained for our example may seem self-evident, sensitivity analysis of multivariable, multiparameter models can be quite illuminating. It is possible, for example, to compute the dependence of the period of oscillation, one of the most easily measured experimental quantities, on the parameters of a model like the Oregonator (Edelson and Thomas, 1981). The equations for the sensitivities, like eqs. (7.25) and (7.26), have the same form as the equations for the concentrations and can easily be appended to the original model, yielding a set of equations that can be solved simultaneously, even for a model with as many as ninety-eight elementary steps (Edelson and Allara, 1980). 

D. Edelson and V.M. Thomas, "Sensitivity Analysis of Oscillating Reactions. 1. The Period of the Oregonator", J. Phys. Chem. 

Oscillatory reactions provide one of the most active areas of research in contemporary chemical kinetics and two published studies on the photochemistry of Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction are very significant in this respect. One deals with Ru(bpy)3 photocatalysed formation of spatial patterns and the other is an analysis of a modified complete Oregonator (model scheme) system which accounts for the O2 sensitivity and photosensitivity. ... 

H. J. Krug, L. Pohlmann, and L. Kuhnert. Analysis of the modified complete Oregonator accounting for oxygen sensitivity and photosensivity of Belousov-Zhabotinsky systems. J. Phys. Chem., 94 4862-4866, 1990. 

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