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Reaction-diffusion systems with time-delay defined on complex networks have been studied in the framework of the emergence of Turing instabilities. The use of the Lambert W-function allowed us get explicit analytic conditions for the onset…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julien Petit , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Ben Lauwens , Timoteo Carletti

Reaction-diffusion (Turing) systems are fundamental to the formation of spatial patterns in nature and engineering. These systems are governed by a set of non-linear partial differential equations containing parameters that determine the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jordon Kho , Winston Koh , Jian Cheng Wong , Pao-Hsiung Chiu , Chin Chun Ooi

To investigate novel aspects of pattern formation in spin systems, we use a mapping between reactive concentrations in a reaction-diffusion system and spin orientations in a dynamic multiple-spin Ising model. While pattern formation in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-15 Mélody Merle , Laura Messio , Julien Mozziconacci

This paper provides the phase transition analysis of a reaction diffusion equations system modeling dynamic instability of microtubules. For this purpose we have generalized the macroscopic model studied by Mour\~ao et all [MSS]. This model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Shantia Yarahmadian , Masoud Yari

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity are useful models for studying cell polarity formation, which is a key process in cell division and differentiation. We rigorously show the existence and stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Masataka Kuwamura , Takashi Teramoto , Hideo Ikeda

Turing patterns emerge from a spatially uniform state following a linear instability driven by diffusion. Features of the eventual pattern (stabilized by non-linearities) are already present in the initial unstable modes. On a uniform flat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-31 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Henry Shackleton

Long after Turing's seminal Reaction-Diffusion (RD) model, the elegance of his fundamental equations alleviated much of the skepticism surrounding pattern formation. Though Turing model is a simplification and an idealization, it is one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Litu Rout

We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on m-directed hypergraphs, the latter being generalization of hypergraphs where nodes forming hyperedges can be shared into two disjoint sets, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Wilfried Segnou , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti

This paper presents a simple model for such processes as chaos spreading or turbulence spillover into stable regions. In this simple model the essential transport occurs via inelastic resonant interactions of waves on a lattice. The process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin , Jens Juul Rasmussen

This study investigates transient wave dynamics in Turing pattern formation, focusing on waves emerging from localised disturbances. While the traditional focus of diffusion-driven instability has primarily centred on stationary solutions,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-15 Václav Klika , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Philip K. Maini

We propose a kind of reaction-diffusion equations for cell differentiation, which exhibits the Turing instability. If the diffusivity of some variables is set to be infinity, we get coupled competitive reaction-diffusion equations with a…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

We investigate diffusion-driven instabilities in a FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction-diffusion system with superdiffusive transport, modeled by fractional Laplacian operators with different diffusion orders for the activator and the inhibitor. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-04 Rossella Rizzo , Gaetana Gambino , Vincenzo Sciacca , Marco Sammartino

Our recent development of a novel research burner has made it possible to experimentally investigate truly unstretched and planar diffusion flames. Hence it has become feasible to directly validate theoretical models for thermal-diffusive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Etienne Robert , Peter A. Monkewitz

We investigate the instabilities and bifurcations of traveling pulses in a model excitable medium; in particular we discuss three different scenarios for the loss of stability resp. the disappearance of stable pulses. In numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Or-Guil , J. Krishnan , I. G. Kevrekidis , M. Bar

In this paper, a class of reaction-diffusion equations for Multiple Sclerosis is presented. These models are derived by means of a diffusive limit starting from a proper kinetic description, taking account of the underlying microscopic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-07 Marzia Bisi , Maria Groppi , Giorgio Martalò , Romina Travaglini

Cross-diffusion systems play a central role in mathematical modelling, in which density-dependent dispersal and multiscale mechanisms can lead to spatial segregation and diffusion-driven instabilities. In several relevant examples,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Brocchieri Elisabetta , Soresina Cinzia

This paper provides a computer-assisted proof for the Turing instability induced by heterogeneous nonlocality in reaction-diffusion systems. Due to the heterogeneity and nonlocality, the linear Fourier analysis gives rise to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Maxime Breden , Maxime Payan , Cordula Reisch , Bao Quoc Tang

Accurate and robust spatial orders are ubiquitous in living systems. In 1952, Alan Turing proposed an elegant mechanism for pattern formation based on spontaneous breaking of the spatial translational symmetry in the underlying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-07 Dongliang Zhang , Chenghao Zhang , Qi Ouyang , Yuhai Tu

Membrane transporters contribute to the regulation of the internal environment of cells by translocating substrates across cell membranes. Like all physical systems, the behaviour of membrane transporters is constrained by the laws of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Michael Pan , Peter J. Gawthrop , Kenneth Tran , Joseph Cursons , Edmund J. Crampin

Important cellular processes, such as cell motility and cell division, are coordinated by cell polarity, which is determined by the non-uniform distribution of certain proteins. Such protein patterns form via an interplay of protein…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Manon C Wigbers , Fridtjof Brauns , Ching Yee Leung , Erwin Frey