Amplitude equations for reaction-diffusion systems with cross diffusion

Abstract

Using Taylor series expansion, multiscaling, and further expansion in powers of a small parameter, we develop general amplitude equations for two-variable reaction-diffusion systems with cross-diffusion terms in the cases of Hopf and Turing instabilities. We apply this analysis to the Oregonator and Brusselator models and find that inhibitor cross diffusion induced by the activator and activator cross diffusion induced by the inhibitor have opposite effects in the two models as a result of the different structure of their community matrices. Our analysis facilitates finding regions of supercritical and subcritical bifurcations, as well as wave and antiwave domains and domains of turbulent waves in the case of Hopf instability.