The dynamics of localized spot patterns for reaction-diffusion systems on the sphere

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/29/3/766zbMATH Open1338.35248arXiv1411.3386OpenAlexW2963799240MaRDI QIDQ2807472FDOQ2807472

Authors: Philippe H. Trinh, Michael J. Ward 

Publication date: 25 May 2016

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the singularly perturbed limit corresponding to a large diffusivity ratio between two components in a reaction-diffusion (RD) system, quasi-equilibrium spot patterns are often admitted, producing a solution that concentrates at a discrete set of points in the domain. In this paper, we derive and study the differential algebraic equation (DAE) that characterizes the slow dynamics for such spot patterns for the Brusselator RD model on the surface of a sphere. Asymptotic and numerical solutions are presented for the system governing the spot strengths, and we describe the complex bifurcation structure and demonstrate the occurrence of imperfection sensitivity due to higher order effects. Localized spot patterns can undergo a fast time instability and we derive the conditions for this phenomena, which depend on the spatial configuration of the spots and the parameters in the system. In the absence of these instabilities, our numerical solutions of the DAE system for $N=2$ to $N=8$ spots suggest a large basin of attraction to a small set of possible steady-state configurations. We discuss the connections between our results and the study of point vortices on the sphere, as well as the problem of determining a set of elliptic Fekete points, which correspond to globally minimizing the discrete logarithmic energy for $N$ points on the sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3386

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion equationsdifferential-algebraic equationsmatched asymptoticsBrusselatorspot patterns

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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