Mesa-type patterns in the one-dimensional Brusselator and their stability

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2005.12.005zbMATH Open1108.35088arXivnlin/0512040OpenAlexW2127810086MaRDI QIDQ2492265FDOQ2492265


Authors: Theodore Kolokolnikov, T. Erneux, Juncheng Wei Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 June 2006

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

Abstract: The Brusselator is a generic reaction-diffusion model for a tri-molecular chemical reaction. We consider the case when the input and output reactions are slow. In this limit, we show the existence of K-periodic, spatially bi-stable structures, emph{mesas}, and study their stability. Using singular perturbation techniques, we find a threshold for the stability of K mesas. This threshold occurs in the regime where the exponentially small tails of the localized structures start to interact. By comparing our results with Turing analysis, we show that in the generic case, a Turing instability is followed by a slow coarsening process whereby logarithmically many mesas are annihilated before the system reaches a steady equilibrium state. We also study a ``breather-type instability of a mesa, which occurs due to a Hopf bifurcation. Full numerical simulations are shown to confirm the analytical results.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0512040




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