Attractors of the Dissipative Evolution Equation of the First Order in Time: Reaction—Diffusion Equations. Fluid Mechanics and Pattern Formation Equations

Author(s):  
Roger Temam

Bifurcation to spatial patterns in a two-dimensional reaction—diffusion medium is considered. The selection of stripes versus spots is shown to depend on the nonlinear terms and cannot be discerned from the linearized model. The absence of quadratic terms leads to stripes but in most common models quadratic terms will lead to spot patterns. Examples that include neural nets and more general pattern formation equations are considered.


2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 2939-2958 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAKOTO ITOH ◽  
LEON O. CHUA

CNN templates for image processing and pattern formation are derived from neural field equations, advection equations and reaction–diffusion equations by discretizing spatial integrals and derivatives. Many useful CNN templates are derived by this approach. Furthermore, self-organization is investigated from the viewpoint of divergence of vector fields.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiankai Zhao ◽  
Yubing Sun ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Mehdi Baghaee ◽  
Yuenan Wang ◽  
...  

Reaction-diffusion models have been widely used to elucidate pattern formation in developmental biology. More recently, they have also been applied in modeling cell fate patterning that mimic early-stage human development events utilizing geometrically confined pluripotent stem cells. However, the traditional reaction-diffusion equations could not satisfactorily explain the concentric ring distributions of various cell types, as they do not yield circular patterns even for circular domains. In previous mathematical models that yield ring patterns, certain conditions that lack biophysical understandings had been considered in the reaction-diffusion models. Here we hypothesize that the circular patterns are the results of the coupling of the mechanobiological factors with the traditional reaction-diffusion model. We propose two types of coupling scenarios: tissue tension-dependent diffusion flux and traction stress-dependent activation of signaling molecules. By coupling reaction-diffusion equations with the elasticity equations, we demonstrate computationally that the contraction-reaction-diffusion model can naturally yield the circular patterns.


2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Fan

We construct an exponential attractor for a first-order dissipative lattice dynamical system arising from spatial discretization of reaction-diffusion equations in . And we obtain fractal dimension of the exponential attractor.


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