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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

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

Diffusion models generate structure by progressively transforming noise into data, yet the mechanisms underlying this transition remain poorly understood. In this work, we show that pattern formation in trained diffusion models can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Luca Ambrogioni

The formation of localized structures in the chlorine dioxide-idodine-malonic acid (CDIMA) reaction-diffusion system is investigated numerically using a realistic model of this system. We analyze the one-dimensional patterns formed along…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Setayeshgar , M. C. Cross

This paper provides a computer-assisted proof for the Turing instability induced by heterogeneous nonlocality in reaction-diffusion systems. Due to the heterogeneity and nonlocality, the linear Fourier analysis gives rise to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Maxime Breden , Maxime Payan , Cordula Reisch , Bao Quoc Tang

A general reaction-diffusion equation with spatiotemporal delay and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is considered. The existence and stability of positive steady state solutions are proved via studying an equivalent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Wenjie Zuo , Junping Shi

We study instabilities and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion layers that are diffusively coupled. For two-layer systems of identical two-component reactions, we analyze the stability of homogeneous steady states by exploiting the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 Anne J. Catlla , Amelia McNamara , Chad M. Topaz

Reaction-diffusion systems may lead to the formation of steady state heterogeneous spatial patterns, known as Turing patterns. Their mathematical formulation is important for the study of pattern formation in general and play central roles…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-05 Lucas D. Fernandes , Marcus A. M. Aguiar

Turing patterns can be observed in reaction-diffusion systems where chemical species have different diffusion constants. In recent years, several studies investigated the effects of noise on Turing patterns and showed that the parameter…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Yang Cao , Radek Erban

The existence and stability of localized patterns of criminal activity are studied for the reaction-diffusion model of urban crime that was introduced by Short et. al. [Math. Models. Meth. Appl. Sci., 18, Suppl. (2008), pp. 1249--1267].…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-17 Theodore Kolokolnikov , Michael Ward , Juncheng Wei

This paper proves that contractive ordinary differential equation systems remain contractive when diffusion is added. Thus, diffusive instabilities, in the sense of the Turing phenomenon, cannot arise for such systems. An important…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Zahra Aminzare , Eduardo D. Sontag

Signaling molecules play an important role for many cellular functions. We investigate here a general system of two membrane reaction-diffusion equations coupled to a diffusion equation inside the cell by a Robin-type boundary condition and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

We establish global-in-time existence results for thermodynamically consistent reaction-(cross-)diffusion systems coupled to an equation describing heat transfer. Our main interest is to model species-dependent diffusivities, while at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Julian Fischer , Katharina Hopf , Michael Kniely , Alexander Mielke

Sufficient conditions for the wave instability in general three-component reaction-diffusion systems are derived. These conditions are expressed in terms of the Jacobian matrix of the uniform steady state of the system, and enable us to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-07 Shigefumi Hata , Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We consider a class of singularly perturbed 2-component reaction-diffusion equations which admit bistable traveling front solutions, manifesting as sharp, slow-fast-slow, interfaces between stable homogeneous rest states. In many example…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Paul Carter , Arjen Doelman , Kaitlynn Lilly , Erin Obermayer , Shreyas Rao

Strong nonlinear effects combined with diffusive coupling may give rise to unpredictable evolution in spatially extended deterministic dynamical systems even in the presence of a fully negative spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. This regime,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Ginelli , R. Livi , A. Politi

Spatial patterns arising spontaneously due to internal processes are ubiquitous in nature, varying from regular patterns of dryland vegetation to complex structures of bacterial colonies. Many of these patterns can be explained in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-02 Yuval R. Zelnik , Omer Tzuk

The study of reaction-diffusion systems on networks is of paramount relevance for the understanding of nonlinear processes in systems where the topology is intrinsically discrete, such as the brain. Until now reaction-diffusion systems have…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Lorenzo Giambagli , Lucille Calmon , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

Reaction-diffusion systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium through the injection of energy can support multiple distinct spatial patterns that persist as long-lived dynamical phases. The stability of these metastable phases is not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Eric R. Heller , David T. Limmer

Pattern formation, arising from systems of autonomous reaction-diffusion equations, on networks has become a common topic of study in the scientific literature. In this work we focus primarily on directed networks. Although some work prior…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-19 Joshua Ritchie