APPLICATION OF COHEN'S CLASS TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE BELOUSOV–ZHABOTINSKY REACTION ANALYSIS

Abstract

The systematic study of application of Cohen's class time-frequency representations in the analysis of periodic BZ oscillations generated in batch reactor has been presented. Several distributions belonging to Cohen's class have been applied in the analysis of selected signal being the register of bromide selective electrode. Among them were Wigner–Ville, Choi–Williams and cone-shaped distributions. The application of mentioned methods allow instantaneous power spectra to be obtained and simultaneously give the possibility of observing evolution of frequency composition of investigated oscillations. The systematic filtering of signal, using so-called kernel functions, allows to eliminate undesirable cross terms and finally leads to the selection of a suitable method for chemical oscillations decomposition. The results presented in the form of three-dimensional pictures, illustrate the decrease in frequency of oscillations of exponential character. On the basis of the obtained results the cone-shaped distribution for kernel function parameter α=1 has been selected as the best method for Belousov–Zhabotinsky oscillations analysis in joint time-frequency domain.