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Time delays, modelling the process of intracellular gene expression, have been shown to have important impacts on the dynamics of pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. In particular, past work has shown that such time delays can…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-28 Alec Sargood , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Andrew L. Krause

We establish universal relations between pattern formation and dissipation with a geometric approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics of deterministic reaction-diffusion systems. We first provide a way to systematically decompose the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-04 Ryuna Nagayama , Kohei Yoshimura , Artemy Kolchinsky , Sosuke Ito

The presence of one or more species at some spatial locations but not others is a central matter in ecology. This phenomenon is related to ecological pattern formation. Nonlocal interactions can be considered as one of the mechanisms…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Ozgur Aydogmus

We investigate Turing pattern formation in a stochastic reaction-diffusion model defined on $N$ lattice sites, where each lattice site is associated with a reaction vessel of volume $\Omega$. We focus on a regime where spatial discreteness…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yusuke Yanagisawa , Shin-ichi Sasa

A reaction--diffusion replicator equation is studied. A novel method to apply the principle of global regulation is used to write down the model with explicit spatial structure. Properties of stationary solutions together with their…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-28 Artem S. Novozhilov , Vladimir P. Posvyanskii , Alexander S. Bratus

Spatio-temporal patterns emerging from an initial quiescent, uniform state is a phenomenon observed in many dynamical systems sustained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, the practical application of which has only recently begun to be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-05 Vinod Ramakrishnan , Michael J. Frazier

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 emergence of localised radial patterns from a Turing instability has been well studied in two and three dimensional settings and predicted for higher spatial dimensions. We prove the existence of localised $(n+1)$-dimensional radial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Dan J. Hill

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

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

Global climate models represent small-scale processes such as clouds and convection using quasi-empirical models known as parameterizations, and these parameterizations are a leading cause of uncertainty in climate projections. A promising…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Janni Yuval , Paul A. O'Gorman

Models of reaction diffusion processes usually employ discrete lattice models with particles interacting at the same site, resulting in localized reactions in the continuum limit. Here, various non-local interactions are considered, and two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chris D Greenman

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

Reaction-Diffusion (RD) systems provide a computational framework that governs many pattern formation processes in nature. Current RD system design practices boil down to trial-and-error parameter search. We propose a differentiable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Alexander Mordvintsev , Ettore Randazzo , Eyvind Niklasson

In this paper, we study the local behaviour of solutions near the fixed points of a reaction-diffusion equation with discontinuous nonlinearity. By employing an appropriate linearization around the fixed points, which involves the Dirac…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-31 José Valero

We present a method to control the two-dimensional shape of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems, as e.g. interfaces and excitation pulses. Control signals that realize a pre-given wave shape are determined analytically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-12-15 Jakob Löber , Steffen Martens , Harald Engel

In this work an activator-depleted reaction-diffusion system is investigated on polar coordinates with the aim of exploring the relationship and the corresponding influence of domain size on the types of possible diffusion-driven…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Wakil Sarfaraz , Anotida Madzvamuse

We investigate dynamics near Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion systems posed on the real line. Linear analysis predicts diffusive decay of small perturbations. We construct a "normal form" coordinate system near such Turing patterns…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Arnd Scheel , Qiliang Wu

We show that propagation speeds in invasion processes modeled by reaction-diffusion systems are determined by marginal spectral stability conditions, as predicted by the marginal stability conjecture. This conjecture was recently settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Montie Avery

In this paper, we study two PDEs that generalize the urban crime model proposed by Short \emph{et al}. [Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 18 (2008), pp. 1249-1267]. Our modifications are made under assumption of the spatial heterogeneity of…

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