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Dryland ecosystems commonly exhibit periodic bands of vegetation, thought to form due to competition between individual plants for heterogeneously distributed water. In this paper, we develop a Fourier method for locally identifying the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-03-05 G. G. Penny , K. E. Daniels , S. E. Thompson

We study mechanisms for wavenumber selection in a minimal model for run-and-tumble dynamics. We show that nonlinearity in tumbling rates induces the existence of a plethora of traveling- and standing-wave patterns, as well as a subtle…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-14 Arnd Scheel , Angela Stevens

Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems have classically been studied only in RD systems which do not explicitly depend on independent variables such as space. In practise, many systems for which Turing patterning is important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Jacob C. Vandenberg , Mark B. Flegg

Pattern formation is a visual understanding of the dynamics of complex systems. Patterns arise in many ways, such as the segmentation of animals, bacterial colonies during growth, vegetation, chemical reactions, etc. In most cases, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Swadesh Pal , Roderick Melnik , Malay Banerjee

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 estimate density of defects frozen into a biological Turing pattern which was turned on at a finite rate. A self-locking of gene expression in individual cells, which makes the Turing transition discontinuous, stabilizes the pattern…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga

We develop a self-consistent theory of temporal fluctuations of a speckle pattern resulting from the multiple scattering of a coherent wave in a weakly nonlinear disordered medium. The speckle pattern is shown to become unstable if the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 S. E. Skipetrov , R. Maynard

Understanding the causes and effects of spatial vegetation patterns is a fundamental problem in ecology, especially because these can be used as early predictors of catastrophic shifts such as desertification processes. Empirical studies of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-19 Paula Villa Martín , Virginia Domínguez-García , Miguel A. Muñoz

The behaviour of internal waves propagating in a background shear flow is studied in the case where the direction of shear is orthogonal to gravity. Ray-tracing theory is used to predict properties of the wave state at locations where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Samuel F. Lewin , Alexis K. Kaminski , Arun Balakrishna , Miles M. P. Couchman

We review the mathematical formalism underlying the modelling of stochasticity in biological systems. Beginning with a description of the system in terms of its basic constituents, we derive the mesoscopic equations governing the dynamics…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-11-05 Alan J. McKane , Tommaso Biancalani , Tim Rogers

Turing (or double-diffusive) instabilities describe pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, and were proposed in 1952 as a potential mechanism behind pattern formation in nature, such as leopard spots and zebra stripes. Because the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 M. W. Noble , M. R. Tonks , S. P. Fitzgerald

The problem of Turing pattern formation has attracted much attention in nonlinear science as well as physics, chemistry and biology. So far all Turing patterns have been observed in stationary and oscillatory media only. In this letter we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jinghua Xiao , Junzhong Yang , Gang Hu

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 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

Patterned vegetation is a characteristic feature of many dryland ecosystems. While plant densities on the ecosystem-wide scale are typically low, a spatial self-organisation principle leads to the occurrence of alternating patches of high…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-05 Lukas Eigentler

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-forming nonequilibrium systems are ubiquitous in nature, from driven quantum matter and biological life forms to atmospheric and interstellar gases. Identifying universal aspects of their far-from-equilibrium dynamics and statistics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Vili Heinonen , Abel J. Abraham , Jonasz Słomka , Keaton J. Burns , Pedro J. Sáenz , Jörn Dunkel

Laminar-turbulent pattern formation is a distinctive feature of the intermittency regime in subcritical plane shear flows. By performing extensive numerical simulations of the plane channel flow, we show that the pattern emerges from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-16 Pavan V. Kashyap , Yohann Duguet , Olivier Dauchot

We analyse a collection of empirical networks in a wide spectrum of disciplines and show that strong non-normality is ubiquitous in network science. Dynamical processes evolving on non-normal networks exhibit a peculiar behaviour, as…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-11-09 Malbor Asllani , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Pattern formation mechanisms of a reaction-diffusion-advection system, with one diffusivity, differential advection, and (Robin) boundary conditions of Danckwerts type, are being studied. Pattern selection requires mapping the domains of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-23 Arik Yochelis , Moshe Sheintuch