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Turing instabilities for a two species reaction-diffusion systems is studied under anisotropic diffusion. More specifically, the diffusion constants which characterize the ability of the species to relocate in space are direction sensitive.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Daniel M. Busiello , Gwendoline Planchon , Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

Symmetry-breaking instabilities play an important role in understanding the mechanisms underlying the diversity of patterns observed in nature, such as in Turing's reaction--diffusion theory, which connects cellular signalling and transport…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew L. Krause , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Thomas Jun Jewell , Václav Klika , Benjamin J. Walker

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the pattern formation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise, for example, from modeling of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

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

The emergence of stable disordered patterns in reactive system on spatially homogenous substrate is studied in the context of vegetation patterns in the semi-arid climatic zone. It is shown that reaction-diffusion systems that allow for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Alon Manor , Nadav M. Shnerb

The study of pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems on growing or otherwise time-dependent domains arises in a variety of settings, including applications in developmental biology, spatial ecology, and experimental…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-11 Robert A. Van Gorder , Václav Klika , Andrew L. Krause

Reaction-diffusion processes across layered media arise in several scientific domains such as pattern-forming E. coli on agar substrates, epidermal-mesenchymal coupling in development, and symmetry-breaking in cell polarisation. We develop…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-18 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Jacob Halatek , Paul K. Grant , Thomas E. Woolley , Neil Dalchau , Eamonn A. Gaffney

Hyperbolic reaction-diffusion equations have recently attracted attention both for their application to a variety of biological and chemical phenomena, and for their distinct features in terms of propagation speed and novel instabilities…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-17 Joshua Ritchie , Andrew L. Krause , Robert A. Van Gorder

We consider the classical Turing instability in a reaction-diffusion system as the secend part of our study on pattern formation. We prove that nonlinear dynamics of a general perturbation of the Turing instability is determined by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yan Guo , Hyung Ju Hwang

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

Pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature and the mechanism widely-accepted to underlay them is based on the Turing instability, predicted by Alan Turing decades ago. This is a non-trivial mechanism that involves nonlinear interaction terms…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-12-19 Javier López-Pedrares , Marcos Suárez-Vázquez , Juan Pérez-Mercader , Alberto P. Muñuzuri

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 consider a two dimensional Turing like system with two diffusing species which interact with each other. Considering the species to be charged, we include the effect of an electric field along a given direction which can lead to a drift…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-31 B K Agarwalla , J K Bhattacharjee , P Titum

In this paper, the Turing instability in reaction-diffusion models defined on complex networks is studied. Here, we focus on three types of models which generate complex networks, i.e. the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi, the Watts-Strogatz, and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yusuke Ide , Hirofumi Izuhara , Takuya Machida

Mechanisms of pattern formation---of which the Turing instability is an archetype---constitute an important class of dynamical processes occurring in biological, ecological and chemical systems. Recently, it has been shown that the Turing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Sayat Mimar , Mariamo Mussa Juane , Juyong Park , Alberto P. Munuzuri , Gourab Ghoshal

Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems where the diffusion terms correspond to a Sturm-Liouville problem are studied. These correspond to a problem where the diffusion coefficient depends on the spatial variable: $\nabla \cdot…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-28 E. A. Calderón-Barreto , J. L. Aragón

Spontaneous pattern formation in homogeneous systems is ubiquitous in nature. Although Turing demonstrated that spatial patterns can emerge in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems when the homogeneous state becomes linearly unstable, it remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Shuonan Wu , Bing Yu , Yuhai Tu , Lei Zhang

Two front instabilities in a reaction-diffusion system are shown to lead to the formation of complex patterns. The first is an instability to transverse modulations that drives the formation of labyrinthine patterns. The second is a…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

We analyze diffusion-driven (Turing) instability of a reaction-diffusion system. The innovation is that we replace the traditional Laplacian diffusion operator with a combination of the fourth order bi-Laplacian operator and the second…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jooyeon Chung

We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on m-directed hypergraphs, the latter being generalization of hypergraphs where nodes forming hyperedges can be shared into two disjoint sets, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Wilfried Segnou , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti
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