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Volume 116, Number 4, November 2016
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Article Number | 48005 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/116/48005 | |
Published online | 09 January 2017 |
Boundary-induced pattern formation from temporal oscillation: Spatial map analysis
1 Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
2 Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Received: 23 August 2016
Accepted: 20 December 2016
Boundary-induced pattern formation is investigated using spatially one-dimensional, two-component reaction-diffusion equations. Temporal oscillation is successively transformed into a spatial pattern, triggered by diffusion from the fixed boundary. We introduced a spatial map, whose temporal sequence, under selection criteria from multiple stationary solutions, can completely reproduce the emergent pattern, by replacing the time with space. The relationship of the pattern wavelength with the period of oscillation is also obtained The pattern wavelength is proportional to the period of the oscillation when the emergent pattern is periodic. The generality of the pattern selection process and algorithm is discussed with possible relevance to biological morphogenesis.
PACS: 82.40.Ck – Pattern formation in reactions with diffusion, flow and heat transfer / 47.54.-r – Pattern selection; pattern formation / 05.65.+b – Self-organized systems
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