Stability of positive constant steady states and their bifurcation in a biological depletion model (Q541582)

This paper studies the positive stationary solutions of a system of reaction diffusion equations known as the depletion model, describing a substrate which is supplied at a constant rate and an activator which consumes it, both diffusing in a bounded region. The authors study the constant solutions and establish criteria for the stability and instability, in dependence on the parameters of the problem. In the one-dimensional case, bifurcation theory is used to show that non-constant stationary solution bifurcate from the constant ones for certain parameter values. Numerical simulations of the time-dependent problem are also carried out, showing the convergence to various stationary solutions.