Paper 2, Section I, E

Mathematical Biology | Part II, 2015

An activator-inhibitor system is described by the equations

ut=2u+u2uv+2ux2vt=a(u2v)+d2vx2\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} &=2 u+u^{2}-u v+\frac{\partial^{2} u}{\partial x^{2}} \\ \frac{\partial v}{\partial t} &=a\left(u^{2}-v\right)+d \frac{\partial^{2} v}{\partial x^{2}} \end{aligned}

where a,d>0a, d>0.

Find the range of aa for which the spatially homogeneous system has a stable equilibrium solution with u>0u>0 and v>0v>0.

For the case when the homogeneous system is stable, consider spatial perturbations proportional to cos(kx)\cos (k x) to the equilibrium solution found above. Show that the system has a Turing instability when

d>(72+23)ad>\left(\frac{7}{2}+2 \sqrt{3}\right) a

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