Influence of curvature on pattern formation: Turing mechanism in the circle

In this work, we study the influence of the curvature of the medium on the formation of patterns through the Turing mechanism of instability guided by diffusion. To analyze the effect of the curvature, we consider the simplest closed curve variety, a circumference. We present the Laplace-Beltrami op...

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Autores: Núñez-López, Mayra, Chacón-Acosta, Guillermo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO
Repositorio:PÄDI Boletín Científico de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería del ICBI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.uaeh.edu.mx:article/8411
Acceso en línea:https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/icbi/article/view/8411
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Turing patterns
reaction-diffusion
curve manifolds
Patrones de Turing
reacción-difusión
variedades de curvas
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Sumario:In this work, we study the influence of the curvature of the medium on the formation of patterns through the Turing mechanism of instability guided by diffusion. To analyze the effect of the curvature, we consider the simplest closed curve variety, a circumference. We present the Laplace-Beltrami operator, which is the generalization of the Laplacian on manifolds, to solve the diffusion equation and describe the modifications that the curvature induces on the distribution function and the mean square displacement. As a particular case of study, we use the Gierer-Meinhardt model. It is shown that the range of unstable modes where it will  be possible to find the spatio-temporal patterns depends on the radius and, therefore, on the specific circle’s curvature.