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The impact of advection on large-wavelength stability of stripes near planar Turing instabilities

Abstract

It is well known that for reaction-diffusion systems with differential isotropic diffusions, a Turing instability yields striped solutions. In this paper we study the impact of weak anisotropy by directional advection on such solutions, and the role of quadratic terms. We focus on the generic form of planar reaction-diffusion systems with two components near such a bifurcation. Using Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction and Floquet-Bloch decomposition we derive a rigorous parameter expansion for existence and stability against large wavelength perturbations. This provides detailed formulae for the loci of bifurcations and so-called Eckhaus as well as zigzag stability boundaries under the influence of the advection and quadratic terms. In particular, while destabilisation of the background state is through modes perpendicular to the advection (Squire-theorem), we show that stripes can bifurcate zigzag unstably. We illustrate these results numerically by an example. Finally, we show numerical computations of these stability boundaries in the extended Klausmeier model for vegetation patterns and show stripes bifurcate stably in the presence of advection.

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Jichen Yang, Jens D. M. Rademacher, Eric Siero. 2019-12-24. The impact of advection on large-wavelength stability of stripes near planar Turing instabilities. https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11294

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