Instabilities and Patterns in Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Layers

Details Instabilities and Patterns in Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Layers Instabilities and Patterns in Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Layers

2012-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/1201.4417v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E

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We study instabilities and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion layers that are diffusively coupled. For two-layer systems of identical two-component reactions, we analyze the stability of homogeneous steady states by exploiting the block symmetric structure of the linear problem. There are eight possible primary bifurcation scenarios, including a Turing-Turing bifurcation that involves two disparate length scales whose ratio may be tuned via the inter-layer coupling. For systems of $n$-component layers and non-identical layers, the linear problem's block form allows approximate decomposition into lower-dimensional linear problems if the coupling is sufficiently weak. As an example, we apply these results to a two-layer Brusselator system. The competing length scales engineered within the linear problem are readily apparent in numerical simulations of the full system. Selecting a $\sqrt{2}$:1 length scale ratio produces an unusual steady square pattern.

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