Oscillatory states and patterns formation in a two-cell cubic autocatalytic reaction-diffusion model subjected to the dirichlet conditions

Abstract

The approximate solutions of a two-cell reaction-diffusion model equation subjected to the Dirichlet conditions are obtained. The reaction is assumed to occur in the presence of cubic autocatalyst which decays to an inert compound in the first cell. Coupling with the reactant is assumed to be cubic in the concentrations. A linear exchange in the concentration of the reactant is taken between the two cells. The formal exact solution is found analytically. Here, in this investigation, use is made of the Picard iterative scheme which is constructed and applied after the exact one. The results obtained are compared with those found by means of a numerical method. It is observed that the solution obtained here is symmetric with respect to the mid-point of the container.The travelling wave is expected due to the parity of the space operator and the symmetric boundary conditions. Symmetric patterns, including among them a parabolic one, are observed for a large time.