Abstract: Forma, Vol. 4 (No. 1), pp. 65-73

Forma, Vol. 4 (No. 1), pp. 65-73, 2001

Original Paper

Phase Separation in an Activator-Inhibitor Medium

Masayasu Mimura, Shin-ichiro Ei and Masataka Kuwamura

Department of Mathematics, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 730, Japan

(Received September 9, 1989; Accepted October 9, 1989)

Keywords: Phase Separation, Activator- Inhibitor System, Singular Perturbation

Abstract. Evolutional process of solutions is studied for some reaction-diffusion systems with activator-inhibitor kinetics

u_t = e²u_xx + (1 - u²)(u - z), z_t = _Iudx - gz

in some interval I with Neumann boundary conditions. When e is very small, it is shown by using multi-time scale arguments that the dynamics of solutions is divided into three stages; The first is the occurrence of internal layers, the second is the propagation of layers with the velocity O(e) and the final is the very slow propagation of layers with the velocity O(e^-A/e) for some constant A>0.