Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains

Reaction-diffusion systems have been widely studied in developmental biology, chemistry and more recently in financial mathematics. Most of these systems comprise nonlinear reaction terms which makes it difficult to find closed form solutions. It therefore becomes convenient to look for numerical so...

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Main Authors: Madzvamuse, A, Maini, P
格式: Journal article
出版: 2007
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description Reaction-diffusion systems have been widely studied in developmental biology, chemistry and more recently in financial mathematics. Most of these systems comprise nonlinear reaction terms which makes it difficult to find closed form solutions. It therefore becomes convenient to look for numerical solutions: finite difference, finite element, finite volume and spectral methods are typical examples of the numerical methods used. Most of these methods are locally based schemes. We examine the implications of mesh structure on numerically computed solutions of a well-studied reaction-diffusion model system on two-dimensional fixed and growing domains. The incorporation of domain growth creates an additional parameter – the grid-point velocity – and this greatly influences the selection of certain symmetric solutions for the ADI finite difference scheme when a uniform square mesh structure is used. Domain growth coupled with grid-point velocity on a uniform square mesh stabilises certain patterns which are however very sensitive to any kind of perturbation in mesh structure. We compare our results to those obtained by use of finite elements on unstructured triangular elements.
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spelling oxford-uuid:be822cdb-32cc-4df2-849c-3673e582d9d62022-03-27T05:39:58ZVelocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domainsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:be822cdb-32cc-4df2-849c-3673e582d9d6Mathematical Institute - ePrints2007Madzvamuse, AMaini, PReaction-diffusion systems have been widely studied in developmental biology, chemistry and more recently in financial mathematics. Most of these systems comprise nonlinear reaction terms which makes it difficult to find closed form solutions. It therefore becomes convenient to look for numerical solutions: finite difference, finite element, finite volume and spectral methods are typical examples of the numerical methods used. Most of these methods are locally based schemes. We examine the implications of mesh structure on numerically computed solutions of a well-studied reaction-diffusion model system on two-dimensional fixed and growing domains. The incorporation of domain growth creates an additional parameter – the grid-point velocity – and this greatly influences the selection of certain symmetric solutions for the ADI finite difference scheme when a uniform square mesh structure is used. Domain growth coupled with grid-point velocity on a uniform square mesh stabilises certain patterns which are however very sensitive to any kind of perturbation in mesh structure. We compare our results to those obtained by use of finite elements on unstructured triangular elements.
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Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains
title Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains
title_full Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains
title_fullStr Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains
title_full_unstemmed Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains
title_short Velocity-induced numerical solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously growing domains
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