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Reaction-diffusion processes across layered media arise in several scientific domains such as pattern-forming E. coli on agar substrates, epidermal-mesenchymal coupling in development, and symmetry-breaking in cell polarisation. We develop…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-18 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Jacob Halatek , Paul K. Grant , Thomas E. Woolley , Neil Dalchau , Eamonn A. Gaffney

Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems have classically been studied only in RD systems which do not explicitly depend on independent variables such as space. In practise, many systems for which Turing patterning is important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Jacob C. Vandenberg , Mark B. Flegg

Turing instabilities for a two species reaction-diffusion systems is studied under anisotropic diffusion. More specifically, the diffusion constants which characterize the ability of the species to relocate in space are direction sensitive.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Daniel M. Busiello , Gwendoline Planchon , Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

Coupling diffusion process of signaling molecules with nonlinear interactions of intracellular processes and cellular growth/transformation leads to a system of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Madoka Nakayama , Izumi Takagi

In this work we study the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Lengyel--Epstein system. Via the linear stability analysis we determine both the Turing and the Hopf instability boundaries and we show…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-20 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino

In this work we investigate the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Brusselator system. Through linear stability analysis of the basic solution we determine the Turing and the oscillatory instability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino , V. Sciacca

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 analyzed conditions for Hopf and Turing instabilities to occur in two-component fractional reaction-diffusion systems. We showed that the eigenvalue spectrum and fractional derivative order mainly determine the type of instability and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-12-09 B. Y. Datsko , V. V. Gafiychuk

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

This paper investigates the conditions for the stability and emergence of patterns in a new three-component reaction-diffusion system. The system describes the coexistence and interaction of water reservoirs, vegetation, and bushfire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Turing instability in activator-inhibitor systems provides a paradigm of nonequilibrium pattern formation; it has been extensively investigated for biological and chemical processes. Turing pattern formation should furthermore be possible…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-05-13 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

Turing (or double-diffusive) instabilities describe pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, and were proposed in 1952 as a potential mechanism behind pattern formation in nature, such as leopard spots and zebra stripes. Because the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 M. W. Noble , M. R. Tonks , S. P. Fitzgerald

Pattern formation from homogeneity is well-studied, but less is known concerning symmetry-breaking instabilities in heterogeneous media. It is nontrivial to separate observed spatial patterning due to inherent spatial heterogeneity from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-10 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Thomas E. Woolley , Eamonn A. Gaffney

The linearization principle states that the stability (or instability) of solutions to a suitable linearization of a nonlinear problem implies the stability (or instability) of solutions to the original nonlinear problem. In this work, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Sofwah Ahmad , Szymon Cygan , Grzegorz Karch

General conditions are established under which reaction-cross-diffusion systems can undergo spatiotemporal pattern-forming instabilities. Recent work has focused on designing systems theoretically and experimentally to exhibit patterns with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-26 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Alan R. Champneys , Andrew L. Krause

We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on complex networks assuming finite propagation. Extending to networked systems the framework introduced by Cattaneo in the 40's, we remove the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Riccardo Muolo

Hyperbolic reaction-diffusion equations have recently attracted attention both for their application to a variety of biological and chemical phenomena, and for their distinct features in terms of propagation speed and novel instabilities…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-17 Joshua Ritchie , Andrew L. Krause , Robert A. Van Gorder

Spontaneous pattern formation in homogeneous systems is ubiquitous in nature. Although Turing demonstrated that spatial patterns can emerge in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems when the homogeneous state becomes linearly unstable, it remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Shuonan Wu , Bing Yu , Yuhai Tu , Lei Zhang

The problem of pattern formation in a generic two species reaction--diffusion model is studied, under the hypothesis that only one species can diffuse. For such a system, the classical Turing instability cannot take place. At variance, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-16 Laura Cantini , Claudia Cianci , Duccio Fanelli , Emma Massi , Luigi Barletti

This paper analyzes the stability of a reactiondiffusion equation coupled with a finite-dimensional controller through Dirichlet boundary input and Neumann boundary output. Going against the flow, we intend to propose numerical certificates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Mathieu Bajodek , Hugo Lhachemi , Giorgio Valmorbida