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Spatial pattern formation in excitable fluctuating media was researched analytically from the point of view of the order parameters concept. The reaction-diffusion system in external noise is considered as a model of such medium. Stochastic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-16 Svetlana E. Kurushina , Valery V. Maximov , Yuri M. Romanovskii

This study presents a detailed investigation of the modulational stability of interfacial wave packets in a two-layer inviscid incompressible fluid with finite layer thicknesses and interfacial surface tension. The stability analysis is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-20 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

We study, theoretically and numerically, the onset and development of modulational instability in an incoherently pumped spatially homogeneous polariton condensate. Within the framework of mean-field theory, we identify regimes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 T. C. H. Liew , O. A. Egorov , M. Matuszewski , O. Kyriienko , X. Ma , E. A. Ostrovskaya

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

We demonstrate that diffusively coupled limit-cycle oscillators on random networks can exhibit various complex dynamical patterns. Reducing the system to a network analog of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, we argue that uniform…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-06 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

In this work we investigate the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Brusselator system. Through linear stability analysis of the basic solution we determine the Turing and the oscillatory instability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino , V. Sciacca

We develop a stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of general parabolic systems, possibly including conservation laws. In particular, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption and prove that it implies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 L. Miguel Rodrigues , Aric Wheeler

Quasipatterns have been found in dissipative systems ranging from Faraday waves in vertically vibrated fluid layers to nonlinear optics. We describe the dynamics of octagonal, decagonal and dodecagonal quasipatterns by means of coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Blas Echebarria , Hermann Riecke

Here we show that there exist internal gravity waves that are inherently unstable, that is, they cannot exist in nature for a long time. The instability mechanism is a one-way (irreversible) harmonic-generation resonance that permanently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Y. Liang , Ahmad Zareei , M. -R. Alam

We study pattern formation associated with the polarization degree of freedom of the electric field amplitude in a mean field model describing a nonlinear Kerr medium close to a two-photon resonance, placed inside a ring cavity with flat…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel Hoyuelos , Daniel Walgraef , Pere Colet , Maxi San Miguel

The paper discusses linear fractional representations of parameter-dependent nonlinear systems with dynamics defined by real rational nonlinearities and a finite set of point delays. The global asymptotic stability is investigated via…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-03-27 M. De la Sen

Turing patterns formed by activator-inhibitor systems on networks are considered. The linear stability analysis shows that the Turing instability generally occurs when the inhibitor diffuses sufficiently faster than the activator. Numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-29 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

Motivated by recent experiments and models of biological segmentation, we analyze the exicitation of pattern-forming instabilities of convectively unstable reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) systems, occuring by means of constant or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick N. McGraw , Michael Menzinger

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

Pattern formation in biological, chemical and physical problems has received considerable attention, with much attention paid to dissipative systems. For example, the Ginzburg--Landau equation is a normal form that describes pattern…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-04 N. J. Balmforth , P. J. Morrison , J. -L. Thiffeault

In this paper, we analyse the dynamics of a pattern-forming system close to simultaneous Turing and Turing--Hopf instabilities, which have a 1:1 spatial resonance, that is, they have the same critical wave number. For this, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Bastian Hilder , Christian Kuehn

Pattern formation in clouds is a well-known feature, which can be observed almost every day. However, the guiding processes for structure formation are mostly unknown, and also theoretical investigations of cloud patterns are quite rare.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Juliane Rosemeier , Peter Spichtinger

We investigate pattern formation in a two-dimensional (2D) Fisher--Stefan model, which involves solving the Fisher--KPP equation on a compactly-supported region with a moving boundary. By combining the Fisher--KPP and classical Stefan…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Alexander K. Y. Tam , Matthew J. Simpson

Pattern formation often occurs in spatially extended physical, biological and chemical systems due to an instability of the homogeneous steady state. The type of the instability usually prescribes the resulting spatio-temporal patterns and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-04-14 David Schueler , Sergio Alonso , Alessandro Torcini , Markus Baer

The process of pattern formation for a multi-species model anchored on a time varying network is studied. A non homogeneous perturbation superposed to an homogeneous stable fixed point can amplify, as follows a novel mechanism of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Julien Petit , Ben Lauwens , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti