Metastable patterns for a reaction-diffusion model with mean curvature-type diffusion

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2020.124455zbMATH Open1462.35183arXiv1907.11155OpenAlexW2963900230MaRDI QIDQ2208263FDOQ2208263

Ramón G. Plaza, Raffaele Folino, Marta Strani

Publication date: 23 October 2020

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to describe a variety of phenomena such as pattern formation and front propagation in biological, chemical and physical systems. In the one-dimensional model with a balanced bistable reaction function, it is well-known that there is persistence of metastable patterns for an exponentially long time, i.e. a time proportional to $exp(C/e)$ where $C,e$ are strictly positive constants and $e^2$ is the diffusion coefficient. In this paper, we extend such results to the case when the linear diffusion flux is substituted by the mean curvature operator both in Euclidean and Lorentz--Minkowski spaces. More precisely, for both models, we prove existence of metastable states which maintain a transition layer structure for an exponentially long time and we show that the speed of the layers is exponentially small. Numerical simulations, which confirm the analytical results, are also provided.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11155

zbMATH Keywords

energy estimatesmetastabilitymean curvature operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Quasilinear parabolic equations with mean curvature operator (35K93)

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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