Designing reaction-cross-diffusion systems with Turing and wave instabilities
Abstract
General conditions are established under which reaction-cross-diffusion systems can undergo spatiotemporal pattern-forming instabilities. Recent work has focused on designing systems theoretically and experimentally to exhibit patterns with specific features, but the case of non-diagonal diffusion matrices has yet to be analysed. Here, a framework is presented for the design of general -component reaction-cross-diffusion systems that exhibit Turing and wave instabilities of a given wavelength. For a fixed set of reaction kinetics, it is shown how to choose diffusion matrices that produce each instability; conversely, for a given diffusion tensor, how to choose linearised kinetics. The theory is applied to several examples including a hyperbolic reaction-diffusion system, two different 3-component models, and a spatio-temporal version of the Ross-Macdonald model for the spread of malaria.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.06860,
title = {Designing reaction-cross-diffusion systems with Turing and wave instabilities},
author = {Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda and Alan R. Champneys and Andrew L. Krause},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06860},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
49 pages, 14 figures