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Title Bifurcation dynamics in nonlocal hyperbolic models for self-organised biological aggregations

Name Raluca Eftimie
Country Scotland
Email reftimie@maths.dundee.ac.uk
Co-Author(s) Pietro-Luciano Buono
Submit Time 2014-02-13 09:07:58
Session
Special Session 85: Transport processes in biology: Modelling and analysis
Contents
Nonlocal hyperbolic models that are used to describe self-organised biological aggregations (i.e., aggregations that form in the absence of any leader) can display a wide variety of spatial and spatio-temporal patterns: from classical stationary and rotating waves, to more exotic zigzags, ripples and modulated rotating waves. Here we use weakly nonlinear analysis to investigate the codimension-1 and codimension-2 bifurcations that give rise to some of these patterns, and discuss the mechanisms behind the transitions between the patterns.