Turing instability of the periodic solutions for reaction-diffusion systems with cross-diffusion and the patch model with cross-diffusion-like coupling (Q2656268)

The author studies a system of reaction-diffusion equations \[ \frac{\partial U}{\partial t} = E \Delta U + F(U) \] with Neumann boundary conditions on a star-shaped domain \(\Omega_1 = \ell \Omega_0\). Also a patch model of \(n\) coupled reactors with cross-diffusion-like coupling is considered. If the uniform steady state undergoes a Hopf bifurcation, the bifurcating periodic solutions may become unstable due to the cross-diffusion terms for sufficiently large domains. As an example the Lengyel-Epstein model is investigated, for which the author presents explicit formulae for the Lyapunov coefficients and the Turing instability due to cross-diffusion.