Spatial inhomogenity due to Turing bifurcation in a system of Gierer-Meinhardt type

  • Authors:
  • Sándor Kovács

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Numerical Analysis, Eötvös L. University, Budapest, P. O. Box 32, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • The Korean Journal of Computational & Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper treats the conditions for the existence and stability properties of stationary solutions of reaction-diffusion equations of Gierer-Meinhardt type, subject to Neumann boundary data. The domains in which diffusion takes place are of three types: a regular hexagon, a rectangle and an isosceles rectangular triangle. Considering one of the relevant features of the domains as a bifurcation parameter it will be shown that at a certain critical value a diffusion driven instability occurs and Turing bifurcation takes place: a pattern emerges.