The interaction of traveling waves, with both Marangoni and buoyancy driven flows, can
generate an extraordinary rich array of patterns ranging from stationary structures to chaotic
waves. However, the inherent complexity of reaction-diffusion-convection (RDC) systems
makes the explanation of the patterning mechanisms very difficult, both numerically and
experimentally. In this paper, we describe the appearance of segmented waves in a shallow
layer of an excitable Belousov-Zhabotinsky solution. The segmentation process was found …