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Among living organisms, there are species that change their patterns on their body surface during their growth process and those that maintain their patterns. Theoretically, it has been shown that large-scale species do not form distinct…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Shin Nishihara , Toru Ohira

Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

We study the discrete Gierer-Meinhardt model of reaction-diffusion on three different types of networks: regular, random and scale-free. The model dynamics lead to the formation of stationary Turing patterns in the steady state in certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Subhasis Banerjee , Shrestha Basu Mallik , Indrani Bose

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

Patterns in reaction-diffusion systems often contain two spatial scales; a long scale determined by a typical wavelength or domain size, and a short scale pertaining to front structures separating different domains. Such patterns naturally…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

The diffusion-driven Turing instability is a potential mechanism for spatial pattern formation in numerous biological and chemical systems. However, engineering these patterns and demonstrating that they are produced by this mechanism is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Antonio Matas-Gil , Robert G. Endres

A class of hyperbolic reaction--diffusion models with cross-diffusion is derived within the context of Extended Thermodynamics. Linear stability analysis is performed to study the nature of the equilibrium states against uniform and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-12 Carmela Currò , Giovanna Valenti

We study the network reconstruction problem for an epidemic reaction-diffusion. These models are an extension of deterministic, compartmental models to a graph setting, where the reactions within the nodes are coupled by a diffusion. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-24 Louis-Brahim Beaufort , Pierre-Yves Massé , Antonin Reboulet , Laurent Oudre

Self-organization, the ability of a system of microscopically interacting entities to shape macroscopically ordered structures, is ubiquitous in Nature. Spatio-temporal patterns are abundantly observed in a large plethora of applications,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-17 Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Philip K. Maini

A feature common to many models of vegetation pattern formation in semi-arid ecosystems is a sequence of qualitatively different patterned states, "gaps -> labyrinth -> spots", that occurs as a parameter representing precipitation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-10-10 Karna Gowda , Hermann Riecke , Mary Silber

Coupling a reaction-diffusion equation with ordinary differential equations (ODE) may lead to diffusion-driven instability (DDI) which, in contrast to the classical reaction-diffusion models, causes destabilization of both, constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Steffen Härting , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

Patterns and nonlinear waves, such as spots, stripes, and rotating spirals, arise prominently in many natural processes and in reaction-diffusion models. Our goal is to compute boundaries between parameter regions with different prevailing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenjun Zhao , Samuel Maffa , Björn Sandstede

Collective organisation of patterns into ring-like configurations has been well-studied when patterns are subject to either weak or semi-strong interactions. However, little is known numerically or analytically about their formation when…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Dan J. Hill , Jason J. Bramburger , David J. B. Lloyd

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

Many animals have patterned fur, feathers, or scales, such as the stripes of a zebra. Turing models, or reaction-diffusion systems, are a class of mathematical models of interacting species that have been successfully used to generate…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Michael F. Staddon

Robustness of spatial pattern against perturbations is an indispensable property of developmental processes for organisms, which need to adapt to changing environments. Although specific mechanisms for this robustness have been extensively…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Kunihiko Kaneko

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 investigates the competition between both simple (e.g. stripes, hexagons) and ``superlattice'' (super squares, super hexagons) Turing patterns in two-component reaction-diffusion systems. ``Superlattice'' patterns are formed from…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen L. Judd , Mary Silber

We study a reaction-diffusion equation with an integral term describing nonlocal consumption of resources. We show that a homogeneous equilibrium can lose its stability resulting in appearance of stationary spatial structures. It is a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephane Genieys , Vitaly Volpert , Pierre Auger

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