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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

This paper investigates pattern formation in reaction--diffusion systems with both diffusive and nondiffusive components, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for diffusion-driven instability (DDI) and establishing the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Théo André , Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Finn Münnich

Fully developed turbulence is a universal and scale-invariant chaotic state characterized by an energy cascade from large to small scales where the cascade is eventually arrested by dissipation. In this article, we show how to harness these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-09 Xander M. de Wit , Michel Fruchart , Tali Khain , Federico Toschi , Vincenzo Vitelli

Spreading phenomena essentially underlie the dynamics of various natural and technological networked systems, yet how spatiotemporal propagation patterns emerge from such networks remains largely unknown. Here we propose a novel approach…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiaozhu Zhang , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

In this work, we present and analyze a general framework for vegetation dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems in which non-local interactions are purely competitive. The generality of the formulation enables a systematic search for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-21 Jelle van der Voort , Ricardo Martinez-Garcia , Arjen Doelman

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

Turing's theory of pattern formation is a universal model for self-organization, applicable to many systems in physics, chemistry and biology. Essential properties of a Turing system, such as the conditions for the existence of patterns and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-02 Xavier Diego , Luciano Marcon , Patrick Müller , James Sharpe

To investigate novel aspects of pattern formation in spin systems, we use a mapping between reactive concentrations in a reaction-diffusion system and spin orientations in a dynamic multiple-spin Ising model. While pattern formation in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-15 Mélody Merle , Laura Messio , Julien Mozziconacci

In this paper, I prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Turing instabilities in a general system with three interacting species. Turing instabilities describe situations when a stable steady state of a reaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-24 Vit Piskovsky

We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on complex networks assuming finite propagation. Extending to networked systems the framework introduced by Cattaneo in the 40's, we remove the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Riccardo Muolo

We study pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-advection-diffusion systems. We develop an approach based on Lyapunov-Bloch exponents to figure out the impact of a spatially periodic mixing flow on the stability of a spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-15 A. V. Straube , A. Pikovsky

Symmetries naturally occur in real-world networks and can significantly influence the observed dynamics. For instance, many synchronization patterns result from the underlying network symmetries, and high symmetries are known to increase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-09-03 Everton S Medeiros , Ulrike Feudel , Anna Zakharova

A one species time-delay reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex networks is studied. Travelling waves are predicted to occur as follows a symmetry breaking instability of an homogenous stationary stable solution, subject to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Julien Petit , Timoteo Carletti , Mabor Asslani , Duccio Fanelli

Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

We investigate Turing instability and pattern formation in two-dimensional domains for two reaction-diffusion models, obtained as diffusive limits of kinetic equations for mixtures of monatomic and polyatomic gases. The first model is of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Stefano Boccelli , Giorgio Martalò , Romina Travaglini

Classical models of pattern formation are based on diffusion-driven instability (DDI) of constant stationary solutions of reaction-diffusion equations, which leads to emergence of stable, regular Turing patterns formed around that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Steffen Härting , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Izumi Takagi

We investigate dynamics near Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion systems posed on the real line. Linear analysis predicts diffusive decay of small perturbations. We construct a "normal form" coordinate system near such Turing patterns…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Arnd Scheel , Qiliang Wu

We use the context of dryland vegetation to study a general problem of complex pattern forming systems - multiple pattern-forming instabilities that are driven by distinct mechanisms but share the same spectral properties. We find that the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-05 Shai Kinast , Yuval R. Zelnik , Golan Bel , Ehud Meron

It is well known that simple reaction-diffusion systems can display very rich pattern formation behavior. Here we have studied two examples of such systems in three dimensions. First we investigate the morphology and stability of a generic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Teemu Leppanen , Mikko Karttunen , Kimmo Kaski , Rafael A. Barrio , Limei Zhang

Spatial distribution of the human population is distinctly heterogeneous, e.g. showing significant difference in the population density between urban and rural areas. In the historical perspective, i.e. on the timescale of centuries, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-08-30 Anna Zincenko , Sergei Petrovskii , Vitaly Volpert