Effect of a membrane on diffusion-driven Turing instability

DOI10.1007/S10440-022-00475-0zbMATH Open1485.35042arXiv2105.09805OpenAlexW3162516454MaRDI QIDQ2115238FDOQ2115238

Authors: Giorgia Ciavolella 

Publication date: 15 March 2022

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Biological, physical, medical, and numerical applications involving membrane problems on different scales are numerous. We propose an extension of the standard Turing theory to the case of two domains separated by a permeable membrane. To this aim, we study a reaction-diffusion system with zero-flux boundary conditions on the external boundary and Kedem-Katchalsky membrane conditions on the inner membrane. We use the same approach as in the classical Turing analysis but applied to membrane operators. The introduction of a diagonalization theory for compact and self-adjoint membrane operators is needed. Here, Turing instability is proven with the addition of new constraints, due to the presence of membrane permeability coefficients. We perform an explicit one-dimensional analysis of the eigenvalue problem, combined with numerical simulations, to validate the theoretical results. Finally, we observe the formation of discontinuous patterns in a system which combines diffusion and dissipative membrane conditions, varying both diffusion and membrane permeability coefficients. The case of a fast reaction-diffusion system is also considered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09805

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion equationsTuring instabilityfinite difference methodsKedem-Katchalsky conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K51) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Numerical solution of discretized equations for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M22)

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