Morphological Instability and Dynamics of Fronts in Bacterial Growth Models with Nonlinear Diffusion

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2002-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211463v1

Phys.Rev.E65:061111,2002

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.061111

It has been argued that there is biological and modeling evidence that a non-linear diffusion coefficient of the type D(b) = D_0 b^{k} underlies the formation of a number of growth patterns of bacterial colonies. We study a reaction-diffusion system with a non-linear diffusion coefficient introduced by Ben-Jacob et al. Due to the fact that the bacterial diffusion coefficient vanishes when the bacterial density b -> 0, the standard linear stability analysis for fronts cannot be used. We introduce an extension of the stability analysis which can be applied to such singular fronts, map out the region of stability in the D-k-plane and derive an interfacial approximation in some limits. Our linear stability analysis and sharp interface formulation will also be applicable to other examples of interface formation due to nonlinear diffusion, like in porous media or in the problem of vortex motion in superconductors.

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