Systems of reaction-diffusion equations with spatially distributed hysteresis
Analysis of PDEs
2013-09-27 v2
Abstract
We study systems of reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuous spatially distributed hysteresis in the right-hand side. The input of hysteresis is given by a vector-valued function of space and time. Such systems describe hysteretic interaction of non-diffusive (bacteria, cells, etc.) and diffusive (nutrient, proteins, etc.) substances leading to formation of spatial patterns. We provide sufficient conditions under which the problem is well posed in spite of the discontinuity of hysteresis. These conditions are formulated in terms of geometry of manifolds defining hysteresis thresholds and the graph of initial data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.6252,
title = {Systems of reaction-diffusion equations with spatially distributed hysteresis},
author = {Pavel Gurevich and Sergey Tikhomirov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6252},
year = {2013}
}
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14 pages, 1 figure