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Morphology of Experimental and Simulated Turing Patterns

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3.4 Convergence to stationary patternsThe numerical convergence <strong>of</strong> the stationary solutions in the <strong>Turing</strong> regime dependson the scheme used for the calculation <strong>and</strong> on the parameters used in the nonlinearreaction terms. For the explicit FTCS algorithm, solving the LE model, this isillustrated in Fig. 3.5, where the absolute change <strong>of</strong> concentrations summed overall points in the grid relative to the size N 2 = 200 2 after 1000 time-steps is shown,given by∆u i = ∑ ∣∣u n ij,l − un i−1j,l ∣ with n i = i · 1000. (3.42)j,lThe inverted hexagonal <strong>and</strong> lamellar states converge after about 20,000 time-steps,as shown in Fig. 3.5a <strong>and</strong> Fig. 3.5b, while the hexagonal state has to overcomea metastable transient state <strong>and</strong> converges after about 50,000 time-steps, see Fig.3.5c. However the required time-steps for convergence can depend on the chosenparameters <strong>and</strong> the values given here can only be considered as a rough estimate.A similar analysis for the semi-implicit Crank-Nicolson method is shown in Fig. 3.6for a system <strong>of</strong> size N 2 = 50 2 . Apart from transient metastable states that appearmore dominant for smaller systems no qualitative difference in the time evolution canbe observed. Depending on the parameters a larger time-step <strong>of</strong> approximately oneorder <strong>of</strong> magnitude compared to the FTCS method is possible, when using the semiimplicitmethod. However the semi-implicit method in its current implementation(i.e. with LE decomposition to solve the linear equation system) has a computingtime proportional to N 6 , where N is the linear system size. In this implementationthe larger computing time makes the semi-implicit Crank Nicolson method slowerthat the explicit FTCS method, despite the larger time-step for the semi-implicitmethod. Therefore the explicit scheme has been used for the numerical analysis <strong>of</strong>the LE model in this thesis.∆u/N 20.20.040.0080 2 4 6 8 10NTimeSteps/10000(a) Inverted hexagonalstate: a = 9.4, b = 0.06.∆u/N 20.10.010.0010 2 4 6 8 10NTimeSteps/10000(b) Lamellar state: a =10.56, b = 0.2.∆u/N 20.10.010.0010 2 4 6 8 10NTimeSteps/10000(c) Hexagonal state: a =11.64, b = 0.361.Figure 3.5: The absolute change <strong>of</strong> concentrations after 1000 time-steps summed overall grid-points in a mesh with N = 200 <strong>and</strong> ∆t = 0.01. Inverted hexagonal <strong>and</strong> lamellarstate converge after about 20,000 time-steps, while the hexagonal state has to overcome atransient state <strong>and</strong> converges after about 50,000 time-steps. Common parameters for allsolutions are σ = 20 <strong>and</strong> c = 1.35

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