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Laminar-turbulent pattern formation is a distinctive feature of the intermittency regime in subcritical plane shear flows. By performing extensive numerical simulations of the plane channel flow, we show that the pattern emerges from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-16 Pavan V. Kashyap , Yohann Duguet , Olivier Dauchot

Mathematical modeling is now used commonly in the analysis of signaling networks. With advances in high resolution microscopy, the spatial location of different signaling molecules and the spatio-temporal dynamics of signaling microdomains…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-26 Jasmine Nirody , Padmini Rangamani

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

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

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 study the dynamics of periodic wave trains in reaction-diffusion systems on the real line under large, fully nonlocalized modulations. We prove that solutions with nearby initial data converge, at an enhanced diffusive rate, to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Joannis Alexopoulos , Björn de Rijk

It is well known that for reaction-diffusion systems with differential isotropic diffusions, a Turing instability yields striped solutions. In this paper we study the impact of weak anisotropy by directional advection on such solutions, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Jichen Yang , Jens D. M. Rademacher , Eric Siero

Motivated by recent experiments and models of biological segmentation, we analyze the exicitation of pattern-forming instabilities of convectively unstable reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) systems, occuring by means of constant or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick N. McGraw , Michael Menzinger

We argue that the spatial discretization of the strongly nonlinear Lefever-Lejeune partial differential equation defines a nonlinear lattice that is physically relevant in the context of the nonlinear physics of ecosystems, modelling the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-26 Nikos I. Karachalios , Antonis Krypotos , Paris Kyriazopoulos

Q-conditional symmetries (nonclassical symmetries) for a general class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems with constant diffusivities are studied. Using the recently introduced notion of Q-conditional symmetries of the first type…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych

Nakao and Mikhailov proposed using continuous models (mean-field models) to study reaction-diffusion systems on networks and the corresponding Turing patterns. This work aims to show that p-adic analysis is the natural tool to carry out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

We present a nonlinear stability theory for periodic wave trains in reaction-diffusion systems, which relies on pure $L^\infty$-estimates only. Our analysis shows that localization or periodicity requirements on perturbations, as present in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Björn de Rijk

This paper is concerned with analysis of coupled fractional reaction-diffusion equations. It provides analytical comparison for the fractional and regular reaction-diffusion systems. As an example, the reaction-diffusion model with cubic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasyl Gafiychuk , Bohdan Datsko , Vitaliy Meleshko

Patterns are ubiquitous in nature, but how they form is often unclear. Turing developed a seminal theory to explain patterns based on reactions that counteract the equalizing tendency of diffusion. These reactions require continuous energy…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker

Self-organization in natural and engineered systems causes the emergence of ordered spatio-temporal motifs. In presence of diffusive species, Turing theory has been widely used to understand the formation of such patterns on continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti

We study the stability of quantum motion of classically regular systems in presence of small perturbations. Onthe base of a uniform semiclassical theory we derive the fidelity decay which displays a quite complexbehaviour, from Gaussian to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wen-ge Wang , G. Casati , Baowen Li

GTPase molecules are important regulators in cells that continuously run through an activation/deactivation and membrane-attachment/membrane-detachment cycle. Activated GTPase is able to localize in parts of the membranes and to induce cell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

We analyze diffusion-driven (Turing) instability of a reaction-diffusion system. The innovation is that we replace the traditional Laplacian diffusion operator with a combination of the fourth order bi-Laplacian operator and the second…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jooyeon Chung

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

Dissipative structures are generally observed when a system relaxes from a far from equilibrium state. To address the reverse question given by the title, we investigate the relaxation process in a closed chemical reaction-diffusion system…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Akinori Awazu , Kunihiko Kaneko