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Periodic solutions to systems of reaction-diffusion equations
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Periodic solutions to systems of reaction-diffusion equations

Gerald Rosen
Journal of the Franklin Institute, v 301(3)
1976

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In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of temporally periodic “dissipative structure” solutions in cases of weak diffusion with the reaction rate terms dominant in a generic system of reaction-diffusion equations ∂c i/∂t = D i▿ 2 c i+Q i( c), where the enumerator index i runs 1 to n, c i = c i( x, t) denotes the concentration or density of the ith participating molecular or biological species, D i is the diffusivity constant for the ith species and Q i( c), an algebraic function of the n-tuple c = (c 1 ,\3., c n), expresses the local rate of production of the ith species due to chemical reactions or biological interactions.

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