id: 04127068 dt: j an: 04127068 au: Gerhardt, M.; Schuster, H. ti: A cellular automaton describing the formation of spatially ordered structures in chemical systems. so: Physica D 36, No.3, 209-221 (1989). py: 1989 pu: Elsevier Science B.V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam la: EN cc: ut: oxidation of carbon monoxide; palladium crystallites; cellular automaton; heterogeneous catalytic reaction; pattern formation; chemical systems; time evolution; self-sustained organization of circular and spiral wave- like; structures; self-sustained organization of circular and spiral wave-like structures ci: li: doi:10.1016/0167-2789(89)90081-X ab: Summary: A cellular automaton describing a certain heterogeneous catalytic reaction is introduced as a theoretical approach towards the investigation of pattern formation in chemical systems. The numerically obtained results demonstrate that the time evolution of this cellular automaton leads to a self-sustained organization of circular and spiral wave-like structures, even starting from random initial states. rv: