%0 Journal Article %T Una aproximaci¨®n computacional para generar patrones de rugosidad superficial del pericarpio y la testa de algunas plantas: coincidencias en los resultados num¨¦ricos %A Garz¨®n-Alvarado %A Diego %A Ram¨ªrez-Mart¨ªnez %A Ang¨¦lica Mar¨ªa %J Ingenier¨ªa y Universidad %D 2012 %I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana %X this article proposes a phenomenolo-gical model that describes the pattern formation of the seedcoat (seedhead) of plant seeds through reaction-diffusion equations with parameters within turing's space. with the purpose of studying pattern formation, several numerical examples concerning simplified geometries of a seed are solved. the finite element method is used for the numerical solution along with the newton-raphson method for the approximation of partial non-linear differential equations. the numerical examples show that the model may represent the formation of different types of plant seedcoats. %K botanics %K progeny testing %K seeds development %K finite element method turing test. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0123-21262012000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en