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This paper investigates pattern formation in reaction--diffusion systems with both diffusive and nondiffusive components, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for diffusion-driven instability (DDI) and establishing the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Théo André , Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Finn Münnich

In certain biological contexts, such as the plumage patterns of birds and stripes on certain species of fishes, pattern formation takes place behind a so-called "wave of competency". Currently, the effects of a wave of competency on the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-15 Yue Liu , Philip K. Maini , Ruth E. Baker

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

This paper presents a simple model for such processes as chaos spreading or turbulence spillover into stable regions. In this simple model the essential transport occurs via inelastic resonant interactions of waves on a lattice. The process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin , Jens Juul Rasmussen

We study the evolution of fronts in a bistable reaction-diffusion system when the nonlinear reaction term is spatially non-homogeneous. This equation has been used to model wave propagation in various biological systems. Extending previous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Horacio G. Rotstein , Anatol M. Zhabotinsky , Irving R. Epstein

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of random transition waves for time heterogeneous Fisher-KPP Equations with nonlocal diffusion. More specifically, we consider general time heterogeneities both for the nonlocal diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Min Zhao , Rong Yuan

Signaling molecules play an important role for many cellular functions. We investigate here a general system of two membrane reaction-diffusion equations coupled to a diffusion equation inside the cell by a Robin-type boundary condition and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

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

We develop a complete stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems. More precisely, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption, prove that it implies nonlinear stability and provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Benjamin Melinand , L. Miguel Rodrigues

We study the (local) propagation of plane waves in a relativistic, non-dissipative, two-fluid system, allowing for a relative velocity in the "background" configuration. The main aim is to analyze relativistic two-stream instability. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-29 L. Samuelsson , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

We present a method to prove nonlinear instability of solitary waves in dispersive models. Two examples are analyzed: we prove the nonlinear long time instability of the KdV solitary wave (with respect to periodic transverse perturbations)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Rousset , N. Tzvetkov

Turing patterns on unbounded domains have been widely studied in systems of reaction-diffusion equations. However, up to now, they have not been studied for systems of conservation laws. Here, we (i) derive conditions for Turing instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Blake Barker , Soyeun Jung , Kevin Zumbrun

In this work, the influence of geometry and domain size on spatiotemporal pattern formation is investigated to establish parameter spaces for a cross-diffusive reaction-diffusion model on an annulus. By applying linear stability theory, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Gulsemay Yigit , Wakil Sarfaraz , Raquel Barreira , Anotida Madzvamuse

The shock wave instability induced when interacting with a small waviness on an interface was investigated analytically and numerically. The perturbation to the shock was phenomenologically treated assuming this as the consequence of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Markhotok

This paper is concerned with non-cooperative parabolic reaction--diffusion systems which share structural similarities with the scalar Fisher--KPP equation. In a previous paper, we established that these systems admit traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Léo Girardin

This paper explores the classification of parameter spaces for reaction-diffusion systems of two chemical species on stationary domains. The dynamics of the system are explored both in the absence and presence of diffusion. The parameter…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-19 Wakil Sarfaraz , Anotida Madzvamuse

We consider general reaction diffusion systems posed on rectangular lattices in two or more spatial dimensions. We show that travelling wave solutions to such systems that propagate in rational directions are nonlinearly stable under small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 A. Hoffman , H. J. Hupkes , E. Van Vleck

The propagation of internal waves in a hydrodynamic system comprising a solid bottom and an upper half-space is investigated. The study is conducted within the framework of a nonlinear low-dimensional model incorporating surface tension on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-06 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

The Turing instability paradigm is revisited in the context of a multispecies diffusion scheme derived from a self-consistent microscopic formulation. The analysis is developed with reference to the case of two species. These latter share…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Duccio Fanelli , Claudia Cianci , Francesca Di Patti