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Do dissipative structures exist? diffusive instability

The local analysis of singular points and their stability can not answer us the question: Do dissipative structures exist here, i.e. do other solutions, except constants, exist in this problem? In order to get the answer, we have to test them in relation to the diffusive instability (see [12, 13]).

The validity of the following inequality (at the corresponding equilibria determined in the previous section) is a necessary and sufficient condition for the diffusive instability:
 equation305
where tex2html_wrap_inline1013; tex2html_wrap_inline1015. From eq. (12) we have
 equation310
where tex2html_wrap_inline1017; tex2html_wrap_inline1019; tex2html_wrap_inline1021; tex2html_wrap_inline1023.

If tex2html_wrap_inline935 then from eq. (13) we get
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Obviously that tex2html_wrap_inline1027 must be negative, i.e. this equilibrium is a stable node, but in this case the inequality is not valid for all values of tex2html_wrap_inline1029, tex2html_wrap_inline1031 and tex2html_wrap_inline1033.

If the equilibrium is non-trivial, i.e. tex2html_wrap_inline1035, then
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We can see in this case that the diffusive instability does not exist either.

And finally we can say that in this problem there are not the spatially non-uniform solutions (differing out of constant) like dissipative structures.


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Werner von Bloh (Data & Computation)
Thu Jul 13 15:02:47 MEST 2000