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We performed an extensive numerical study of a two-dimensional reaction-diffusion system of the activator-inhibitor type in which domain patterns can form. We showed that both multidomain and labyrinthine patterns may form spontaneously as…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-09-08 C. B. Muratov , V. V. Osipov

Reaction-diffusion systems with time-delay defined on complex networks have been studied in the framework of the emergence of Turing instabilities. The use of the Lambert W-function allowed us get explicit analytic conditions for the onset…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julien Petit , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Ben Lauwens , Timoteo Carletti

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

Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems where the diffusion terms correspond to a Sturm-Liouville problem are studied. These correspond to a problem where the diffusion coefficient depends on the spatial variable: $\nabla \cdot…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-28 E. A. Calderón-Barreto , J. L. Aragón

We consider here the morphogenesis (pattern formation) problem for some genetic network models. First, we show that any given spatio-temporal pattern can be generated by a genetic network involving a sufficiently large number of genes.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Genieys , S. Vakulenko

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

Intracellular protein patterns govern essential cellular functions by dynamically redistributing proteins between membrane-bound and cytosolic states, conserving their total numbers. This review presents a theoretical framework for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erwin Frey , Henrik Weyer

One possible mechanism to explain how animals got their coat patterns was proposed by Alan Turing. He assumed that two kinds of morphogens diffuse on a surface and interact with each other, generating a reaction-diffusion mechanism. We…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-16 Michäel Dougoud , Christian Mazza , Beat Schwaller , Laszlo Pecze

We propose a technique to detect and generate patterns in a network of locally interacting dynamical systems. Central to our approach is a novel spatial superposition logic, whose semantics is defined over the quad-tree of a partitioned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Ebru Aydin Gol , Ezio Bartocci , Calin Belta

The Turing mechanism describes the emergence of spatial patterns due to spontaneous symmetry breaking in reaction-diffusion processes and underlies many developmental processes. Identifying Turing mechanisms in biological systems defines a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 David Schnörr , Christoph Schnörr

Reaction-diffusion processes on networked systems have received mounting attention in the past two decades, and the corresponding theory of network dynamics has been continuously enriched with the advancement of network science. Recently,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-30 Junyuan Shi , Linhe Zhu

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

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

Motivated by bacterial chemotaxis and multi-species ecological interactions in heterogeneous environments, we study a general one-dimensional reaction-cross-diffusion system in the presence of spatial heterogeneity in both transport and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-08 Eamonn A. Gaffney , Andrew L. Krause , Philip K. Maini , Chenyuan Wang

We investigate Turing instability and pattern formation in two-dimensional domains for two reaction-diffusion models, obtained as diffusive limits of kinetic equations for mixtures of monatomic and polyatomic gases. The first model is of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Stefano Boccelli , Giorgio Martalò , Romina Travaglini

A class of systems is considered, where immobile species associated to distinct patches, the nodes of a network, interact both locally and at a long-range, as specified by an (interaction) adjacency matrix. Non local interactions are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-30 Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

Turing patterns are fundamental in biophysics, emerging from short-range activation and long-range inhibition processes. However, their paradigm is based on diffusive transport processes, which yields Turing patters that are less sharp than…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-13 Benjamin M. Alessio , Ankur Gupta

Pattern formation mechanisms of a reaction-diffusion-advection system, with one diffusivity, differential advection, and (Robin) boundary conditions of Danckwerts type, are being studied. Pattern selection requires mapping the domains of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-23 Arik Yochelis , Moshe Sheintuch

We explain the principles of gene expression pattern stabilization in systems of interacting, diffusible morphogens, with dynamically established source regions. Using a reaction-diffusion model with step-function production term, we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 M. Majka , R. D. J. G. Ho , M. Zagorski

This paper is concerned with stochastic reaction-diffusion kinetics governed by the reaction-diffusion master equation. Specifically, the primary goal of this paper is to provide a mechanistic basis of Turing pattern formation that is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-23 Yutaka Hori , Shinji Hara