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Spiral-like patterns are an often observed phenomenon in chemical experiments such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction. The talk is concerned with a new PDE model whose solutions have the form of rotating spirals. In contrast to previous approaches it is based on a {\em scalar\/} reaction diffusion equation defined on a disk. A particular choice of boundary conditions leads to a non-selfadjoint operator which permits non-trivial dynamics. We study this equation using a combination of equivariant bifurcation theory and numerical simulations. The latter involves the direct simulation of the time dependent system as well as the computation of rotating waves and their stability.