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This study of spatio-temporal pattern formation in an annulus is motivated by two physical problems on vastly different scales. The first is atmospheric convection in the equatorial plane between the warm surface of the Earth and the cold…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 William F. Langford , Dan D. Rusu

Wave localization induced by spatial disorder is ubiquitous in physics. Here, we study the temporal analog of such phenomenon on water waves. Our time disordered media consists in a collection of temporal interfaces achieved through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-16 Benjamin Apffel , Sander Wildeman , Antonin Eddi , Emmanuel Fort

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

The spatiotemporal pattern formation is studied in the catalytic carbon monoxide oxidation reaction that takes into account the diffusion processes over the Pt(110) surface, which may contain structurally different areas. These areas are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-27 I. S. Bzovska , I. M. Mryglod

Pattern formation often occurs in confined systems, yet how boundaries shape patterning dynamics is unclear. We develop techniques to analyze confinement effects in nonlocal advection-diffusion equations, which generically capture the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-11 Jan Rombouts , Michael L Zhao , Alexander Aulehla , Anna Erzberger

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

A system very similar to a dielectric barrier discharge, but with a simple stationary DC voltage, can be realized by sandwiching a gas discharge and a high-ohmic semiconductor layer between two planar electrodes. In experiments this system…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-11-10 I. R. Rafatov , D. D. Sijacic , U. Ebert

We explore the joint effect of the intrinsic noise and time delay on the spatial pattern formation within a multi-scale mobile lattice model of the epithelium. The protein fluctuations are driven by transcription/translation processes in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-12 Dmitry Bratsun , Andrey Zakharov

Mathematical models of spatial population dynamics typically focus on the interplay between dispersal events and birth/death processes. However, for many animal communities, significant arrangement in space can occur on shorter timescales,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-06 Jonathan R. Potts , Mark A. Lewis

The Turing instability is a paradigmatic route to patterns formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Following a diffusion-driven instability, homogeneous fixed points can become unstable when subject to external perturbation. As a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-02 Joseph D. Challenger , Raffaella Burioni , Duccio Fanelli

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

Surface wave patterns are investigated experimentally in a system geometry that has become a paradigm of quantum chaos: the stadium billiard. Linear waves in bounded geometries for which classical ray trajectories are chaotic are known to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kudrolli , Mathew C. Abraham , J. P. Gollub

We demonstrate the emergence of self-organized structures in the course of the relaxation of an initially excited, dissipative and finite chain of interacting particles in a periodic potential towards its many particle equilibrium…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-19 Benno Liebchen , Peter Schmelcher

Zonal flows are well known to arise spontaneously out of turbulence. We show that for statistically averaged equations of the stochastically forced generalized Hasegawa-Mima model, steady-state zonal flows and inhomogeneous turbulence fit…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Jeffrey B. Parker , John A. Krommes

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

Some quantities in the reaction-diffusion models from cellular biology or ecology depend on the spatial average of density functions instead of local density functions. We show that such nonlocal spatial average can induce instability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Qingyan Shi , Junping Shi , Yongli Song

In this work we investigate the process of pattern formation in a two dimensional domain for a reaction-diffusion system with nonlinear diffusion terms and the competitive Lotka-Volterra kinetics. The linear stability analysis shows that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-03-03 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino

We report the first experimental realization of pattern formation in a spatially extended nonlinear system when the system is alternated between two states, neither of which exhibits patterning. Dynamical equations modeling the system are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Sharpe , P. L. Ramazza , N. Sungar , Karl Saunders

Understanding and predicting environmental phenomena often requires the construction of spatio-temporal statistical models, which are typically Gaussian processes. A common assumption made on Gaussian processes is that of covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-17 Quan Vu , Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Stephen J. Chuter

We consider the pattern formation problem in coupled identical systems after the global synchronized state becomes unstable. Based on analytical results relating the coupling strengths and the instability of each spatial mode (pattern) we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Govindan Rangarajan , Yonghong Chen , Mingzhou Ding