Eur. Phys. J. B 21, 561-566 (2001)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510170167

Pattern formation in reaction diffusion systems: a Galerkin model

Department of theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700 032, India

Corresponding author: ^a tpjkb@mahendra.iacs.res.in

Received: 10 May 2000
Revised: 14 March 2001
Published online: 15 June 2001

Abstract

Reaction diffusion systems are extremely useful for studying pattern formation in biological systems. We carry out a Lorenz like few mode truncation of a reaction diffusion system and show that it not only gives the same qualitative behaviour as the more complicated systems but also indicates of the existence of a Hopf-bifurcation in the turing region.