Sufficient Turing instability conditions for the Schnakenberg system

S. V. Revina   ; S. A. Lysenko

Vestnik Udmurtskogo universiteta. Matematika, mehanika, kompʹûternye nauki, Tome 31 (2021) no. 3, pp. 424-442

Résumé

A classical reaction–diffusion system, the Schnakenberg system, is under consideration in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m$ with Neumann boundary conditions. We study diffusion-driven instability of a stationary spatially homogeneous solution of this system, also called the Turing instability, which arises when the diffusion coefficient $d$ changes. An analytical description of the region of necessary and sufficient conditions for the Turing instability in the parameter plane is obtained by analyzing the linearized system in diffusionless and diffusion approximations. It is shown that one of the boundaries of the region of necessary conditions is an envelope of the family of curves that bound the region of sufficient conditions. Moreover, the intersection points of two consecutive curves of this family lie on a straight line whose slope depends on the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator and does not depend on the diffusion coefficient. We find an analytical expression for the critical diffusion coefficient at which the stability of the equilibrium position of the system is lost. We derive conditions under which the set of wavenumbers corresponding to neutral stability modes is countable, finite, or empty. It is shown that the semiaxis $d>1$ can be represented as a countable union of half-intervals with split points expressed in terms of the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator; each half-interval is characterized by the minimum wavenumber of loss of stability.

Détail

Keywords: reaction–diffusion systems, Schnakenberg system, Turing space, critical wavenumber.

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