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This paper is concerned with finite difference solutions of a system of reaction-diffusion equations with coupled nonlinear boundary conditions and time delays. The reaction functions and the boundary functions are not necessarily quasimonotone, and the time delays may appear in the reaction functions as well as in the boundary functions. The investigation is devoted to the finite difference system for both the time-dependent problem and its corresponding steady-state problem. Some monotone iteration processes for the finite difference systems are given, and the asymptotic behavior of the time-dependent solution in relation to the steady-state solution is discussed. The asymptotic behavior result leads to some local and global attractors of the time-dependent problem, including the convergence of the time-dependent solution to a unique steady-state solution. An application and some numerical results to an enzyme-substrate reaction-diffusion problem are given. All the results are directly applicable to parabolic-ordinary systems and to reaction-diffusion systems without time delays.
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The work of this author was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China No.10571059, E-Institutes of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission No. E03004, Shanghai Priority Academic Discipline, and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry.
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Wang, YM., Pao, C. Time-Delayed finite difference reaction-diffusion systems with nonquasimonotone functions. Numer. Math. 103, 485–513 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-006-0685-y
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