Instabilities of Stripe Solutions in the Two-Dimensional Gray-Scott Model
Speaker:
Theodore Kolokolnikov, Dalhousie University
Date and Time:
Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
The Gray-Scott model is a reaction-diffusion system that is known to exhibit complicated spatial patterns. These include: stripes, rings, spots, domain-filling curves and any combination thereof. In this talk, we consider the stripe solutions in two dimensions. Such a solution can exhibit three different types of instability: a splitting instability, whereby a stripe self-replicates into two parallel stripes; a breakup instability, where a stripe breaks up into spots; and a zigzag instability, whereby a stripe develops a wavy perturbation in the transversal direction. We derive explicit thresholds for all three types of instability. Some open problems will be discussed.