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We study the Swift-Hohenberg equation - a paradigm model for pattern formation - with "large" spatially periodic coefficients and find a Turing bifurcation that generates patterns whose leading order form is a Bloch wave modulated by…

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Recent progress in image generation has sparked research into controlling these models through condition signals, with various methods addressing specific challenges in conditional generation. Instead of proposing another specialized…

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Negative refraction is a peculiar wave propagation phenomenon that occurs when a wave crosses a boundary between a regular medium and a medium with both constitutive parameters negative at the given frequency. The phase and group velocities…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-23 Or Lasri , Lea Sirota

We have studied the entropy-driven mechanism leading to stationary patterns formation in stochastic systems with local dynamics and non-Fickian diffusion. We have shown that a multiplicative noise fulfilling a fluctuation-dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-20 D. O. Kharchenko , S. V. Kokhan , A. V. Dvornichenko

We investigate the impact of the domain shape on wave propagation in excitable media. Channelled domains with sinusoidal boundaries are considered. Trains of fronts generated periodically at an extreme of the channel are found to adopt a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-15 Irene Sendiña-Nadal , Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri , Víctor M. Eguíluz , Emilio Hernández-García , Oreste Piro

We study the influence of boundary conditions on stationary, periodic patterns in one-dimensional systems. We show how a conceptual understanding of the structure of equilibria in large domains can be based on the characterization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-26 David Morrissey , Arnd Scheel

A subcritical pattern-forming system with nonlinear advection in a bounded domain is recast as a slow-fast system in space and studied using a combination of geometric singular perturbation theory and numerical continuation. Two types of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-20 Daniele Avitabile , Mathieu Desroches , Edgar Knobloch , Martin Krupa

In a reaction-diffusion-advection system, with a convectively unstable regime, a perturbation creates a wave train that is advected downstream and eventually leaves the system. We show that the convective instability coexists with a local…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-11 Estefania Vidal-Henriquez , Vladimir Zykov , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Azam Gholami

Intracellular protein patterns regulate a variety of vital cellular processes such as cell division and motility, which often involve dynamic changes of cell shape. These changes in cell shape may in turn affect the dynamics of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-07-19 Laeschkir Würthner , Andriy Goychuk , Erwin Frey

This paper studies spatial patterns formed by proximate population migration driven by real wage gradients and other idiosyncratic factors. The model consists of a tractable core-periphery model incorporating a quasi-linear log utility…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-23 Kensuke Ohtake

The radiation (reaction, Robin) boundary condition for the continuum diffusion equation is widely used in chemical and biological applications to express reactive boundaries. The underlying trajectories of the diffusing particles are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-09-02 A. Singer , Z. Schuss , D. Holcman

We study a heretofore ignored class of spiral patterns for oscillatory media as characterized by the complex Landau-Ginzburg model. These spirals emerge from modulating the growth rate as a function of $r$, thereby turning off the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-02 David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

We analyze the effect of nonlinear boundary conditions on an advection-diffusion equation on the half-line. Our model is inspired by models for crystal growth where diffusion models diffusive relaxation of a displacement field, advection is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Antoine Pauthier , Arnd Scheel

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

Mixing of two fluids can lead to the formation of a precipitate. If one of the fluids is injected into a confined space filled with the other, a created precipitate disrupts the flow locally and forms complex spatiotemporal patterns. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-12 Shunsuke Tanaka , Kojiro Otoguro , Miyuki Kunihiro , Hiroki Ishikawa , Yutaka Sumino

The ability of Gaussian noise to induce ordered states in dynamical systems is here presented in an overview of the main stochastic mechanisms able to generate spatial patterns. These mechanisms involve: (i) a deterministic local dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-14 Stefania Scarsoglio , Francesco Laio , Paolo D'Odorico , Luca Ridolfi

We study the periodic forced response of a system of two limit cycle oscillators that interact with each other via a time delayed coupling. Detailed bifurcation diagrams in the parameter space of the forcing amplitude and forcing frequency…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Ramana Reddy , A. Sen , G. L. Johnston

A complete and systematic approach to compute the causal boundary of wave-type spacetimes is carried out. The case of a 1-dimensional boundary is specially analyzed and its critical appearance in pp-wave type spacetimes is emphasized. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 José Luis Flores , Miguel Sánchez

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

Machine-learning based methods like physics-informed neural networks and physics-informed neural operators are becoming increasingly adept at solving even complex systems of partial differential equations. Boundary conditions can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Niklas Göschel , Sebastian Götschel , Daniel Ruprecht