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By considering the master equation of the partially asymmetric diffusion process on a one-dimensional lattice, the most general boundary condition (i.e. interactions) for the multi-species reaction-diffusion processes is considered.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Alimohammadi , Y. Naimi

Reaction-diffusion equations describe various spatially extended processes that unfold as traveling fronts moving at constant velocity. We introduce and solve analytically a model that, besides such fronts, supports solutions advancing as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Louis Brezin , Kyle J. Shaffer , Kirill S. Korolev

This work discusses the homogenization analysis for diffusion processes on scale-free metric graphs, using weak variational formulations. The oscillations of the diffusion coefficient along the edges of a metric graph induce internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Fernando A. Morales , Daniel E. Restrepo

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a system of nonlinear reaction--diffusion--advection equations in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via microscopic channels distributed within a thin membrane. Both the width of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lucas M. Fix , Gianna Götzmann , Malte A. Peter , Jan-F. Pietschmann

In a previous paper it was shown that a machine learning regression problem can be solved within the framework of random function theory, with the optimal kernel analytically derived from symmetry and indifference principles and coinciding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuriy N. Bakhvalov

The exact solution of a diffusion$-$reaction model for the trapping and annihilation of positrons in small extended spherical defects (clusters, voids, small precipitates) with competitive rate-limited trapping in vacancy-type point defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-24 Roland Würschum , Laura Resch , Gregor Klinser

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling through continuous normalizing flows. We investigate a potential topological constraint: when the prior distribution and target distribution have mismatched topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Congzhou M Sha

The replication and differentiation of spots in reaction diffusion equations are studied by extending the Gray-Scott model with self-replicating spots to include many degrees of freedom needed to model systems with many chemicals. By…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroaki Takagi , Kunihiko Kaneko

We present Diffusion Structures, a family of resilient shell structures from the eigenfunctions of a pair of novel diffusion operators. This approach is based on Michell's theorem but avoids expensive non-linear optimization with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Abhishek Madan , Alec Jacobson , David I. W. Levin

Adaptive networks are well-suited to perform decentralized information processing and optimization tasks and to model various types of self-organized and complex behavior encountered in nature. Adaptive networks consist of a collection of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Ali H. Sayed

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

Spatial self-organization emerges in distributed systems exhibiting local interactions when nonlinearities and the appropriate propagation of signals are at work. These kinds of phenomena can be modeled with different frameworks, typically…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-23 Adriano Bonforti , Salva Duran-Nebreda , Raul Montañez , Ricard Solé

Complex behaviour in many systems arises from the stochastic interactions of spatially distributed particles or agents. Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes are widely used to model such behaviour in disciplines ranging from biology to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-23 David Schnoerr , Ramon Grima , Guido Sanguinetti

Optimal packing of spheres in $\mathbb R^d$ is studied by optimization of the energy $E$ (effective conductivity) of composites with ideally conducting spherical inclusions. It is demonstrated that the minimum of $E$ over locations of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-25 Vladimir Mityushev

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

In this thesis a connection between the worlds of discrete and continuous conformal geometry is explored. Specifically, a disk pattern production theroem is proved using an energy which measures how ``uniform'' the angle data of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Gregory Leibon

The close-to-equilibrium regularity of solutions to a class of reaction-diffusion systems is investigated. The considered systems typically arise from chemical reaction networks and satisfy a complex balanced condition. Under some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Bao Quoc Tang

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a coupled non-linear system of reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion, consisting of two partial differential equations representing the density of cells and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Georges Chamoun , Mazen Saad , Toni Sayah , Sarah Serhal

We construct a two-dimensional diffusion process with rank-dependent local drift and dispersion coefficients, and with a full range of patterns of behavior upon collision that range from totally frictionless interaction, to elastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-24 E. Robert Fernholz , Tomoyuki Ichiba , Ioannis Karatzas

The blooming diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have garnered significant interest due to their impressive performance and the elegant inspiration they draw from physics. While earlier DPMs relied upon the Markovian assumption, recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Bowen Sun , Shibao Zheng