Numerical investigation on oscillatory Turing patterns in a two-layer coupled reaction–diffusion system

Abstract

In this paper, various kinds of spontaneous dynamic patterns are investigated based on a two-layer nonlinearly coupled Brusselator model. It is found that, when the Hopf mode or supercritical Turing mode respectively plays major role in the short or long wavelength mode layer, the dynamic patterns appear under the action of nonlinearly coupling interactions in the reaction–diffusion system. The stripe pattern can change its symmetrical structure and form other graphics when influenced by small perturbations sourced from other modes. If two supercritical Turing modes are nonlinearly coupled together, the transition from Turing instability to Hopf instability may appear in the short wavelength mode layer, and the twinkling-eye square pattern, traveling and rotating pattern will be obtained in the two subsystems. If Turing mode and subharmonic Turing mode satisfy the three-mode resonance relation, twinkling-eye patterns are generated, and oscillating spots are arranged as square lattice in the two-dimensional space. When the subharmonic Turing mode satisfies the spatio-temporal phase matching condition, the traveling patterns, including the rhombus, hexagon and square patterns are obtained, which presents different moving velocities. It is found that the wave intensity plays an important role in pattern formation and pattern selection.