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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

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

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

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

Although Turing pattern is one of the most universal mechanisms for pattern formation, in its standard model the number of stripes changes with the system size, since the wavelength of the pattern is invariant: It fails to preserve the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Shuji Ishihara , Kunihiko Kaneko

In this paper the Turing pattern formation mechanism of a two component reaction-diffusion system modeling the Schnakenberg chemical reaction coupled to linear cross-diffusion terms is studied. The linear cross-diffusion terms favors the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-08 G. Gambino , S. Lupo , M. Sammartino

In his 1952 paper "The chemical basis of morphogenesis", Alan M. Turing presented a model for the formation of skin patterns. While it took several decades, the model has been validated by finding corresponding natural phenomena, e.g. in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-16 Martin Skrodzki , Ulrich Reitebuch , Eric Zimmermann

The study of pattern emergence together with exploration of the exemplar Turing model is enjoying a renaissance both from theoretical and experimental perspective. Here, we implement a stability analysis of spatially dependent reaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-06 Michal Kozák , Eamonn A Gaffney , Václav Klika

The theory of patterns formation for a reaction-diffusion system defined on a multiplex is developed by means of a perturbative approach. The intra-layer diffusion constants act as small parameter in the expansion and the unperturbed state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Malbor Asllani , Daniel M. Busiello , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Gwendoline Planchon

Turing patterns are a central paradigm for describing spatial patterns in nature. The corresponding theory of reaction-diffusion dynamics combines ideal diffusion with nonlinear reactions, resulting in patterns when species diffuse at…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker

Originating from the pioneering study of Alan Turing, the bifurcation analysis predicting spatial pattern formation from a spatially uniform state for diffusing morphogens or chemical species that interact through nonlinear reactions is a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-18 Merlin Pelz , Michael J. Ward

Mechanisms of pattern formation---of which the Turing instability is an archetype---constitute an important class of dynamical processes occurring in biological, ecological and chemical systems. Recently, it has been shown that the Turing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Sayat Mimar , Mariamo Mussa Juane , Juyong Park , Alberto P. Munuzuri , Gourab Ghoshal

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 consider a two dimensional Turing like system with two diffusing species which interact with each other. Considering the species to be charged, we include the effect of an electric field along a given direction which can lead to a drift…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-31 B K Agarwalla , J K Bhattacharjee , P Titum

Turing's theory of pattern formation is a universal model for self-organization, applicable to many systems in physics, chemistry and biology. Essential properties of a Turing system, such as the conditions for the existence of patterns and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-02 Xavier Diego , Luciano Marcon , Patrick Müller , James Sharpe

In this letter we propose a Turing model of the formation of patterns of visible light emission intensity in atmospheric pressure gas discharges. The electron density and the electron temperature take the roles of activator and inhibitor…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-01-19 Xi Chen , Yao Zhou , Xi-Ming Zhu , Yi-Kang Pu , F. Iza , M. A. Lieberman

The emergence of stable disordered patterns in reactive system on spatially homogenous substrate is studied in the context of vegetation patterns in the semi-arid climatic zone. It is shown that reaction-diffusion systems that allow for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Alon Manor , Nadav M. Shnerb

The aim of this work is to study the effect of diffusion on the stability of the equilibria in a general two-components reaction-diffusion system with Neumann boundary conditions in the space of continuous functions. As by product, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Francisco J. Vielma-Leal , Miguel A. D. R. Palma , Miguel Montenegro-Concha

Reaction-diffusion systems may lead to the formation of steady state heterogeneous spatial patterns, known as Turing patterns. Their mathematical formulation is important for the study of pattern formation in general and play central roles…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-05 Lucas D. Fernandes , Marcus A. M. Aguiar

Morphogenesis is the ensemble of processes that determines form, shape and patterns in organisms. Based on a reaction-diffusion theoretical setting and some prototype reaction schemes, we make a review of the models and experiments that…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Rui Dilao