Asymptotic behaviour of rapidly oscillating contrasting spatial structures

Abstract

The asymptotic behaviour of equilibria that rapidly oscillate in the spatial coordinate in a system of two nonlinear parabolic equations with a sufficiently small diffusion coefficient in one of them is investigated. The normalization method is applied to show that the local dynamics of the original system with a small parameter multiplying one of the high-order derivatives is determined by the non-local behaviour of the solutions of a family of special boundary-value problems that are independent of the small parameter.