Striated populations in disordered environments with advection

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2016.08.059zbMATH Open1400.92430arXiv1603.08646OpenAlexW2332677791MaRDI QIDQ1620127FDOQ1620127

Authors: Thiparat Chotibut, D. R. Nelson, Sauro Succi 

Publication date: 13 November 2018

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Growth in static and controlled environments such as a Petri dish can be used to study the spatial population dynamics of microorganisms. However, natural populations such as marine microbes experience fluid advection and often grow up in heterogeneous environments. We investigate a generalized Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (FKPP) equation describing single species population subject to a constant flow field and quenched random spatially inhomogeneous growth rates with a fertile overall growth condition. We analytically and numerically demonstrate that the non-equilibrium steady-state population density develops a flow-driven striation pattern. The striations are highly asymmetric with a longitudinal correlation length that diverges linearly with the flow speed and a transverse correlation length that approaches a finite velocity-independent value. Linear response theory is developed to study the statistics of the steady states. Theoretical predictions show excellent agreement with the numerical steady states of the generalized FKPP equation obtained from Lattice Boltzmann simulations. These findings suggest that, although the growth disorder can be spatially uncorrelated, correlated population structures with striations emerge naturally at sufficiently strong advection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08646

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zbMATH Keywords

pattern formationpopulation dynamicsgeneralized FKPP equationspatially quenched disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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