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Self-arrangement of individuals into spatial patterns often accompanies and promotes species diversity in ecological systems. Here, we investigate pattern formation arising from cyclic dominance of three species, operating near a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-08-31 Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey

Linear stability analysis of speckle pattern resulting from multiple, diffuse scattering of coherent light waves in random media with intensity-dependent refractive index (noninstantaneous Kerr nonlinearity) is performed. The speckle…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Skipetrov

The growth of laminar-turbulent band patterns in plane Couette flow is studied in the vicinity of the global stability threshold R_g below which laminar flow ultimately prevails. Appropriately tailored direct numerical simulations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Paul Manneville

We consider a reaction-diffusion system undergoing Turing instability and augment it by an additional unilateral source term. We investigate its influence on the Turing instability and on the character of resulting patterns. The nonsmooth…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-30 Tomas Vejchodsky , Filip Jaros , Milan Kucera , Vojtech Rybar

Active fluids such as bacterial swarms, self-propelled colloids, and cell tissues can all display complex spatio-temporal vortices that are reminiscent of inertial turbulence. This emergent behavior despite the overdamped nature of these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-15 Amal Manoharan , Sanjay CP , Ashwin Joy

We propose conditions for the emergence of Turing patterns in a domain that changes in size by homogeneous growth/shrinkage. These conditions to determine the bifurcation are based on considering the geometric change of a potential function…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-25 Aldo Ledesma-Durán

Active fluids, such as suspensions of microswimmers, are known to self-organize into complex spatio-temporal flow patterns. An intriguing example is mesoscale turbulence, a state of dynamic vortex structures exhibiting a characteristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Henning Reinken , Sebastian Heidenreich , Markus Bär , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The formation of vegetation patterns in the arid and the semi-arid climatic zones is studied. Threshold for the biomass of the perennial flora is shown to be a relevant factor, leading to a frozen disordered patterns in the arid zone. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 N. M. Shnerb , P. Sara , H. Lavee , S. Solomon

We study the onset of spatial instabilities in reaction networks where the spatially homogeneous system admits a steady state parameterization. We formulate a sufficient condition -- based on the signs of the constant and leading…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Carsten Conradi , Maya Mincheva , Hannes Uecker

We propose a new non-equilibrium model for spatial pattern formation on the basis of local information transfer. Unlike standard models of pattern formation it is not based on the Turing instability. Information is transmitted through the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thimo Rohlf , Stefan Bornholdt

Landscapes that are rhythmically dissected by natural drainage channels exist in various geologic and climatic settings. Such landscapes are characterized by a length-scale for the lateral spacing between channels. We observe a small-scale…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Norbert Schorghofer , Bill Jensen , Arshad Kudrolli , Daniel H. Rothman

For delayed reaction-diffusion Schnakenberg systems with Neumann boundary conditions, critical conditions for Turing instability are derived, which are necessary and sufficient. And existence conditions for Turing, Hopf and Turing-Hopf…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Weihua Jiang , Hongbin Wang , Xun Cao

It is well-known that in two dimensions Turing systems produce spots, stripes and labyrinthine patterns, and in three dimensions lamellar and spherical structures or their combinations are observed. We study transitions between these states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Teemu Leppanen , Mikko Karttunen , R. A. Barrio , Kimmo Kaski

The increasing volume of ecologically and biologically relevant data has revealed a wide collection of emergent patterns in living systems. Analyzing different datasets, ranging from metabolic gene-regulatory to species interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-13 Daniel M. Busiello , Samir Suweis , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

This paper delves into a systematically reduced plant system proposed by Ja\"ibi et al. [Phys. D, 2020] in arid area. They used the method of geometric singular perturbation to study the existence of abundant orbits. Instead, we deliberate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-13 Yonghui Xia , Jianglong Xiao , Jianshe Yu

In the absence of nonlinearity all eigenmodes of a chain with disorder are spatially localized (Anderson localization). The width of the eigenvalue spectrum, and the average eigenvalue spacing inside the localization volume, set two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Flach , D. Krimer , Ch. Skokos

We study a p-adic reaction-diffusion system and the associated Turing patterns. We establish an instability criteria and show that the Turing patterns are not classical patterns consisting of alternating domains. Instead of this, a Turing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

Diffusion-driven instability is a fundamental mechanism underlying pattern formation in spatially extended systems. In almost all existing works, diffusion across the links of the underlying network is modeled through scalar weights,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Gallo , Wilfried Segnou , Timoteo Carletti

Nonlinear stripe patterns occur in many different systems, from the small scales of biological cells to geological scales as cloud patterns. They all share the universal property of being stable at different wavenumbers $q$, i.e., they are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-02-22 Mirko Ruppert , Walter Zimmermann

Order can spontaneously emerge from seemingly noisy interactions between biological agents, like a flock of birds changing their direction of flight in unison, without a leader or an external cue. We are interested in the generic conditions…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Carsten T. van de Kamp , George Dadunashvili , Johan L. A. Dubbeldam , Timon Idema