Past exam of the topics in applied mathematics course of the University of Oxford / 2008 / A / 4 / c / Solution

For the cosine mode in the question, the Laplacian acts by multiplication by $-s$, whereThese modes obey the Neumann boundary conditions. In the chemotactic term, put $q=1+u$, $c=\eta +v$. Then $\nabla c=\nabla v$, and $q\nabla c=\nabla v+u\nabla v$; the second product is a quadratic polynomial in perturbation amplitude. Thus the linearized equations areSubstituting the modal time dependence givesSeparating this matrix into its transport part and the reaction Jacobian matrix gives the required form, with the same $J$ as above.