Effect of a Membrane on Diffusion-Driven Turing Instability

Biological, physical, medical, and numerical applications involving membrane problems on different scales are numerous. We propose an extension of the standard Turing theory to the case of two domains separated by a permeable membrane. To this aim, we study a reaction–diffusion system with zero-flux...

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Published in:Acta applicandae mathematicae 2022-04, Vol.178 (1), Article 2
Main Author: Ciavolella, Giorgia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis of PDEs
Applications of Mathematics
Boundary conditions
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control
Optimization
Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
Diffusion
Dimensional analysis
Eigenvalues
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Membranes
Operators
Partial Differential Equations
Permeability
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
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Summary:Biological, physical, medical, and numerical applications involving membrane problems on different scales are numerous. We propose an extension of the standard Turing theory to the case of two domains separated by a permeable membrane. To this aim, we study a reaction–diffusion system with zero-flux boundary conditions on the external boundary and Kedem-Katchalsky membrane conditions on the inner membrane. We use the same approach as in the classical Turing analysis but applied to membrane operators. The introduction of a diagonalization theory for compact and self-adjoint membrane operators is needed. Here, Turing instability is proven with the addition of new constraints, due to the presence of membrane permeability coefficients. We perform an explicit one-dimensional analysis of the eigenvalue problem, combined with numerical simulations, to validate the theoretical results. Finally, we observe the formation of discontinuous patterns in a system which combines diffusion and dissipative membrane conditions, varying both diffusion and membrane permeability coefficients.
ISSN:0167-8019
1572-9036
DOI:10.1007/s10440-022-00475-0