Global dynamics of the Brusselator equations (Q2469294)

The author considers the following system of two nonlinearly coupled reaction-diffusion equations \[ {\partial u\over\partial t}= d_1\Delta_x u+ u^2v- (b+ 1)u+ a,\quad (t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times\Omega,\tag{1} \] \[ {\partial v\over\partial t}= d_2\Delta_x v- u^2 v+ bu,\quad (t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times\Omega,\tag{2} \] \[ u(t,x)= v(t,x)= 0,\quad t> 0,\;x\in\partial\Omega,\tag{3} \] \[ u(0,x)= u_0(x),\;v(0,x)= v_0(x),\quad x\in\Omega,\tag{4} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain of \(\mathbb R^d\), \(d\leq 3\), with locally Lipschitz continuous boundary, \(d_1\), \(d_2\), \(a\) and \(b\) are positive constants. For the initial boundary value problems (1)--(4), the essential difficulties in proving existence of a global attractor lie in the fact that the oppositely interactive polynomial nonlinearity in the two coupled equations does not possess partial dissipativity or asymptotic dissipativity. In this paper, a new decomposition technique is explored and used to show the \(K\)-contraction of the solution semiflow.