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Rybář, Vojtěch ; Vejchodský, Tomáš
Irregularity of Turing patterns in the Thomas model with a unilateral term. (English). In: Chleboun, J., Přikryl, P., Segeth, K., Šístek, J. and Vejchodský, T. (eds.): Programs and Algorithms of Numerical Mathematics. Proceedings of Seminar. Dolní Maxov, June 8-13, 2014. Institute of Mathematics AS CR, Prague, 2015. pp. 188-193
MSC: 35K57, 35Q92
Keywords:
reaction-diffusion system; Thomas model; Turing instability
Summary:
In this contribution we add a unilateral term to the Thomas model and investigate the resulting Turing patterns. We show that the unilateral term yields nonsymmetric and irregular patterns. This contrasts with the approximately symmetric and regular patterns of the classical Thomas model. In addition, the unilateral term yields Turing patterns even for smaller ratio of diffusion constants. These conclusions accord with the recent findings about the influence of the unilateral term in a model for mammalian coat patterns. This indicates that the observed effects of the unilateral term are general and apply to a variety of systems.
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