Sample animation



The animation displays the time-dependent probability density of a very simple interacting chemical system consisting of two species that comes to rest at steady-state. Although the density itself is in equilibrium, any realization of the system would be fluctuating according to this distribution. Note the negative correlation which comes from the interaction between the two species; if the number of molecules of one of the species increases, then the other species will start to disappear from the system due to the interaction. Note also the different scales present already in this simple example: the transport along the line x = y is very fast while the slow diffusion along x y = constant is much slower.

(Plot info: each axis tick is 10 molecules and the contour levels have been chosen by Matlab)

References

  • S. Engblom: Spectral Approximation of Solutions to the Chemical Master Equation, in J. Comput. Appl. Math. 229(1):208--221, 2009: (doi)
  • S. Engblom: Galerkin Spectral Method applied to the Chemical Master Equation, in Commun. Comput. Phys. 5(5):871--896, 2009: (abstract), (pdf).

  • Stefan Engblom
    Last modified: Thu May 10 11:04:40 MEST 2007