Stripe and Spot Patterns for General Gierer–Meinhardt Model with Common Sources

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Turing patterns in the general Gierer–Meinhardt model of morphogenesis. The stability analysis of the equilibrium for the associated ODE system is carried out and the stability conditions are obtained. Furthermore, we perform a detailed Hopf bifurcation analysis for this system. The results show that the equilibrium undergoes a supercritical Hopf bifurcation in certain parameter range and the bifurcated limit cycle is stable. With added diffusions, we then show that both the stable equilibrium and the Hopf periodic solution experience Turing instability with unequal spatial diffusions and obtain the instability conditions. Numerical simulations are given to illustrate the theoretical analysis, which show that the Turing patterns are of either spot or stripe type.