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The modelling of linear and nonlinear reaction-subdiffusion processes is more subtle than normal diffusion and causes different phenomena. The resulting equations feature a spatial Laplacian with a temporal memory term through a time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Jichen Yang , Jens D. M. Rademacher

In this paper, I prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Turing instabilities in a general system with three interacting species. Turing instabilities describe situations when a stable steady state of a reaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-24 Vit Piskovsky

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

Analytically tracking patterns emerging from a small amplitude Turing instability to large amplitude remains a challenge as no general theory exists. In this paper, we consider a three component reaction-diffusion system with one of its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Christopher Brown , Gianne Derks , Peter van Heijster , David J. B. Lloyd

The Turing instability paradigm is revisited in the context of a multispecies diffusion scheme derived from a self-consistent microscopic formulation. The analysis is developed with reference to the case of two species. These latter share…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Duccio Fanelli , Claudia Cianci , Francesca Di Patti

We study instabilities and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion layers that are diffusively coupled. For two-layer systems of identical two-component reactions, we analyze the stability of homogeneous steady states by exploiting the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 Anne J. Catlla , Amelia McNamara , Chad M. Topaz

Turing instabilities of reaction-diffusion systems can only arise if the diffusivities of the chemical species are sufficiently different. This threshold is unphysical in most systems with $N=2$ diffusing species, forcing experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Pierre A. Haas , Raymond E. Goldstein

In this article we formulate new models for coupled systems of bulk-surface reaction-diffusion equations on stationary volumes. The bulk reaction-diffusion equations are coupled to the surface reaction-diffusion equations through linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Anotida Madzvamuse , Andy H. W. Chung , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

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

Systems of reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (RD-PDEs) are widely applied for modelling life science and physico-chemical phenomena. In particular, the coupling between diffusion and nonlinear kinetics can lead to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Maria Chiara D'Autilia , Ivonne Sgura , Valeria Simoncini

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

Turing patterns on unbounded domains have been widely studied in systems of reaction-diffusion equations. However, up to now, they have not been studied for systems of conservation laws. Here, we (i) derive conditions for Turing instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Blake Barker , Soyeun Jung , Kevin Zumbrun

Planar wave trains are traveling wave solutions whose wave profiles are periodic in one spatial direction and constant in the transverse direction. In this paper, we investigate the stability of planar wave trains in reaction-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Björn de Rijk , Björn Sandstede

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

Confirming Turing's theory of morphogens in developmental processes is challenging, and synthetic biology has opened new avenues for testing Turing's predictions. Synthetic mammalian pattern formation has been recently achieved through a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-22 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Saad Benjelloun , Adnane Saoud , Irene Otero-Muras

Pattern formation in clouds is a well-known feature, which can be observed almost every day. However, the guiding processes for structure formation are mostly unknown, and also theoretical investigations of cloud patterns are quite rare.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Juliane Rosemeier , Peter Spichtinger

We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for Turing instabilities to occur in two-component systems of reaction-diffusion equations with Neumann boundary conditions. We apply this condition to reaction-diffusion systems built from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui Dilao

This paper addresses the derivation of generic and tractable sufficient conditions ensuring the stability of a coupled system composed of a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) and a finite-dimensional linear time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur

The purpose of the current paper is to unveil the key mechanism which is responsible for the occurrence of {\it Turing-type instability} for a non-local Fisher-KPP type model. In particular, we prove that the solution of the considered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Nikos I. Kavallaris , Evangelos A. Latos

The problem of Turing instabilities for a reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex Cartesian product networks is considered. To this end we operate in the linear regime and expand the time dependent perturbation on a basis formed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-23 Malbor Asllani , Daniel M. Busiello , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Gwendoline Planchon