Transversal instability for the thermodiffusive reaction-diffusion system

DOI10.1007/S11401-015-0981-XzbMATH Open1328.35097arXiv1401.7755OpenAlexW1566653714WikidataQ60502735 ScholiaQ60502735MaRDI QIDQ746381FDOQ746381

Authors: Michal Kowalczyk, Nicolas Vauchelet, Ben{ôı}t Perthame 

Publication date: 16 October 2015

Published in: Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The propagation of unstable interfaces is at the origin of remarkable patterns that are observed in various areas of science as chemical reactions, phase transitions, growth of bacterial colonies. Since a scalar equation generates usually stable waves, the simplest mathematical description relies on two by two reaction-diffusion systems. Our interest is the extension of the Fisher/KPP equation to a two species reaction which represents reactant concentration and temperature when used for flame propagation, bacterial population and nutrient concentration when used in biology. We study in which circumstances instabilities can occur and in particular the effect of dimension. It is observed numerically that spherical waves can be unstable depending on the coefficients. A simpler mathematical framework is to study transversal instability, that means a one dimensional wave propagating in two space dimensions. Then, explicit analytical formulas give explicitely the range of paramaters for instability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7755

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion equationstability analysistraveling wavesthermodiffusive system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Combustion (80A25) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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