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Vertical thermal convection is a non-equilibrium system in which both buoyancy and shear forces play a role in driving the convective flow. Beyond the onset of convection, the driven dissipative system exhibits chaotic dynamics and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-27 Zheng Zheng , Laurette S. Tuckerman , Tobias M. Schneider

The Turing instability is a paradigmatic route to patterns formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Following a diffusion-driven instability, homogeneous fixed points can become unstable when subject to external perturbation. As a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-02 Joseph D. Challenger , Raffaella Burioni , Duccio Fanelli

We study the evolution of fronts in a bistable reaction-diffusion system when the nonlinear reaction term is spatially non-homogeneous. This equation has been used to model wave propagation in various biological systems. Extending previous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Horacio G. Rotstein , Anatol M. Zhabotinsky , Irving R. Epstein

The main objective of this article is to study the three-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rectangular domain from a pattern formation perspective. It is well known that as the Rayleigh number crosses a critical threshold, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-09-27 Taylan Sengul , Shouhong Wang

Boundary-induced pattern formation from a spatially uniform state is investigated using one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations. The temporal oscillation is successively transformed into a spatially periodic pattern, triggered by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-01 Takahiro Kohsokabe , Kunihiko Kaneko

Classical models of pattern formation are based on diffusion-driven instability (DDI) of constant stationary solutions of reaction-diffusion equations, which leads to emergence of stable, regular Turing patterns formed around that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Steffen Härting , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Izumi Takagi

Pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature and the mechanism widely-accepted to underlay them is based on the Turing instability, predicted by Alan Turing decades ago. This is a non-trivial mechanism that involves nonlinear interaction terms…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-12-19 Javier López-Pedrares , Marcos Suárez-Vázquez , Juan Pérez-Mercader , Alberto P. Muñuzuri

When two Turing modes interact, i.e., Turing-Turing bifurcation occurs, superposition patterns revealing complex dynamical phenomena appear. In this paper, superposition patterns resulting from Turing-Turing bifurcation are investigated in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Xun Cao , Weihua Jiang

Turing patterns are stationary, wave-like structures that emerge from the nonequilibrium assembly of reactive and diffusive components. While they are foundational in biophysics, their classical formulation relies on a single characteristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-30 Siamak Mirfendereski , Ankur Gupta

Numerical simulations of a simple reaction--diffusion model reveal a surprising variety of irregular spatio--temporal patterns. These patterns arise in response to finite--amplitude perturbations. Some of them resemble the steady irregular…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 John E. Pearson

Robustness of spatial pattern against perturbations is an indispensable property of developmental processes for organisms, which need to adapt to changing environments. Although specific mechanisms for this robustness have been extensively…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Kunihiko Kaneko

The propagation of unstable interfaces is at the origin of remarkable patterns that are observed in various areas of science as chemical reactions, phase transitions, growth of bacterial colonies. Since a scalar equation generates usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Michal Kolwalczyk , Benoit Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet

Nonlinear instabilities are responsible for spontaneous pattern formation in a vast number of natural and engineered systems ranging from biology to galaxies build-up. We propose a new instability mechanism leading to pattern formation in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-20 A. M. Perego , N. Tarasov , D. V. Churkin , S. K. Turitsyn , K. Staliunas

We examine a spatially discrete reaction diffusion model based on the interactions that create a periodic pattern in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc. This model is capable of generating a regular hexagonal pattern of gene expression behind…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-01-26 Matthew W. Pennington , David K. Lubensky

A general system of several ordinary differential equations coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded domain with zero-flux boundary condition is studied in the context of pattern formation. These initial-boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

We present global existence results for solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on evolving domains. Global existence results for a class of reaction-diffusion systems on fixed domains are extended to the same systems posed on spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-04-06 Chandrasekhar Venkataraman , Omar Lakkis , Anotida Madzvamuse

We report a new mechanism of pattern formation in growing bistable systems coupled indirectly. A modified Fujita et. al. model is studied as an example of a reaction-diffusion system of nondiffusive activator and inhibitor molecules…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Dorjsuren Battogtokh

Understanding the spontaneous emergence of dislocation patterns during plastic deformation is a long standing challenge in dislocation theory. During the past decades several phenomenological continuum models of dislocation patterning were…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Istvan Groma , Michael Zaiser , Peter Dusan Ispanovity

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

The diffusion equation is extended by including spatial-temporal memory in such a manner that the conservation of the concentration is maintained. The additional memory term gives rise to the formation of non-trivial stationary solutions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steffen Trimper , Knud Zabrocki