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We explore a mechanism of pattern formation arising in processes described by a system of a single reaction-diffusion equation coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise from the modeling of interactions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Steffen Härting , Anna Marciniak-Czochra

Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized as probabilistic inference about the right structural form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Brenden M. Lake , Neil D. Lawrence , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Since its introduction in 1952, Turing's (pre-)pattern theory ("the chemical basis of morphogenesis") has been widely applied to a number of areas in developmental biology. The related pattern formation models normally comprise a system of…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-28 Fiona R Macfarlane , Mark AJ Chaplain , Tommaso Lorenzi

Numerical simulations of a simple reaction--diffusion model reveal a surprising variety of irregular spatio--temporal patterns. These patterns arise in response to finite--amplitude perturbations. Some of them resemble the steady irregular…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 John E. Pearson

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

One possible mechanism to explain how animals got their coat patterns was proposed by Alan Turing. He assumed that two kinds of morphogens diffuse on a surface and interact with each other, generating a reaction-diffusion mechanism. We…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-16 Michäel Dougoud , Christian Mazza , Beat Schwaller , Laszlo Pecze

All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals. Understanding the dynamics which facilitate or limit navigation of problem spaces by aligned parts thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Francesco Sacco , Dalton A R Sakthivadivel , Michael Levin

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

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

With the development of network science, Turing pattern has been proven to be formed in discrete media such as complex networks, opening up the possibility of exploring it as a generation mechanism in the context of biology, chemistry, and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-05 Yong Ye , Jiaying Zhou

Intracellular protein patterns govern essential cellular functions by dynamically redistributing proteins between membrane-bound and cytosolic states, conserving their total numbers. This review presents a theoretical framework for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erwin Frey , Henrik Weyer

Self-organization is the spontaneous formation of spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal patterns in complex systems far from equilibrium. During such self-organization, energy distributed in a broadband of frequencies gets condensed into a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-12-08 Induja Pavithran , Vishnu R. Unni , Alan John Varghese , D. Premraj , R. I. Sujith , C. Vijayan , Abhishek Saha , Norbert Marwan , Jürgen Kurths

It is proposed that self-organisation (SO) in non-equilibrium systems is governed by a general principle: it emerges when a minute subset of system configurations are exceptionally stable and long-lived to survive the noise generated by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-20 Raphael Blumenfeld

In this work we investigate the process of pattern formation in a two dimensional domain for a reaction-diffusion system with nonlinear diffusion terms and the competitive Lotka-Volterra kinetics. The linear stability analysis shows that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-03-03 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino

Spatial and temporal pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems is typically studied with two or more equations, as scalar reaction-diffusion equations confined to convex domains do not admit stable inhomogeneous states in time or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-07 N. Mahashri , Andrew L. Krause , M. Chandru , Thomas E. Woolley

Self-organizing processes shape Earth's surface, creating complex patterns from simple rules in most landforms. Rainfall-induced mass movements dramatically reshape landscapes through rapid sediment transfer, but whether they self-organize…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhengjing Ma , Gang Mei , Nengxiong Xu , Yongshuang Zhang , Jianbing Peng

We study pattern formation in a chemotaxis model of bacteria and soil carbon dynamics as an example system where transient dynamics can give rise to pattern formation outside of Turing unstable regimes. We use a detailed analysis of the…

Turing patterns are fundamental in biophysics, emerging from short-range activation and long-range inhibition processes. However, their paradigm is based on diffusive transport processes, which yields Turing patters that are less sharp than…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-13 Benjamin M. Alessio , Ankur Gupta

A simple periodically driven system displaying rich behavior is introduced and studied. The system self-organizes into a mosaic of static ordered regions with three possible patterns, which are threaded by one-dimensional paths on which a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-24 Daniel Hexner , Dov Levine

We study a process of pattern formation for a generic model of species anchored to the nodes of a network where local reactions take place, and that experience non-reciprocal long-range interactions, encoded by the network directed links.…

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