Hi, Damien.

Try using u.setValue(0.5 + 0.5*sin(pi*x)*sin(pi*y)) and similarly for v.
These lines could naturally be placed right after the definition of u and v
(certainly before the time stepping begins).

See
http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/examples/diffusion/generated/examples.diffusion.mesh1D.html

Ray

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Damien CHUDEAU <damien-r.chud...@orange.fr>
wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I am a French student and I am trying to model the emergence of patterns
> on the fur of animals using the Turing equations (involving the
> concentrations u and v) and to code it thanks to the FiPy library. A
> pattern appearing only if the system is unstable, it is necessary that
> the initial conditions on u and v can be changed. Here is my program
> where everything is initialized to 0.5 ... which does not suit me so. I
> have tried to find help on google and on French forums but no one could
> help me. Can anyone explain me how to solve my problem ?
>
> from fipy import *
> from math import *
>
> a = 0.25
> b = 0.75
> d = 20
> nx = 20
> ny = nx
> dx = 1.
> dy = dx
> L = dx * nx
>
> mesh = Grid2D(dx=dx, dy=dy, nx=nx, ny=ny)
>
> u = CellVariable(name = "concentration u", mesh = mesh, hasOld=True,
> value = 0.5)
> v = CellVariable(name = "concentration v", mesh = mesh, hasOld=True,
> value = 0.5)
>
> D = 1.
>
> eqn0 = TransientTerm(var=u) == a - u + u*u*v + DiffusionTerm(1, var=u)
> eqn1 = TransientTerm(var=v) == b - u*u*v + DiffusionTerm(D, var=v)
>
> eqn = eqn0 & eqn1
>
> #pas d'échange avec l'extérieur -> conditions de Neumann
>
> u.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesTop)
> u.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesBottom)
> u.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesRight)
> u.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesLeft)
> v.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesTop)
> v.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesBottom)
> v.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesRight)
> v.faceGrad.constrain(((0,),(0,)), where=mesh.facesLeft)
>
> vi = Viewer((u, v))
>
> for t in range(1):
>     u.updateOld()
>     v.updateOld()
>     eqn.solve(dt=1.e-3)
>     vi.plot()
>
> I tried adding the following lines of code ... but it does not work.
>
> x, y = mesh.cellCenters
> u.value = 0.5 + 0.5*sin(pi*x)*sin(pi*y)
> v.value = 1 + sin(pi*x)*sin(pi*y)
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Damien
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