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We investigate diffusion-driven instabilities in a FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction-diffusion system with superdiffusive transport, modeled by fractional Laplacian operators with different diffusion orders for the activator and the inhibitor. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-04 Rossella Rizzo , Gaetana Gambino , Vincenzo Sciacca , Marco Sammartino

We consider the stability of position control of traveling waves in reaction-diffusion system as proposed in {[}J. L\"ober, H. Engel, arXiv:1304.2327{]}. Instead of analyzing the controlled reaction-diffusion system, stability is studied on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-06-16 Jakob Löber

In this article we formulate new models for coupled systems of bulk-surface reaction-diffusion equations on stationary volumes. The bulk reaction-diffusion equations are coupled to the surface reaction-diffusion equations through linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Anotida Madzvamuse , Andy H. W. Chung , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

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

The propagation of unstable interfaces is at the origin of remarkable patterns that are observed in various areas of science as chemical reactions, phase transitions, growth of bacterial colonies. Since a scalar equation generates usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Michal Kolwalczyk , Benoit Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet

Many existing studies on pattern formation in the reaction-diffusion systems rely on deterministic models. However, environmental noise is often a major factor which leads to significant changes in the spatiotemporal dynamics. In this…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-30 Anuj Kumar Sirohi , Malay Banerjee , Anirban Chakraborti

Turing patterns formed by activator-inhibitor systems on networks are considered. The linear stability analysis shows that the Turing instability generally occurs when the inhibitor diffuses sufficiently faster than the activator. Numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-29 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We study general linear transport-reaction systems on an arbitrary dimensional hypercube with periodic boundary conditions. Transport-reaction systems are often used to model the finite speed movement and interaction of particles, bacteria…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Benedikt Geiger

I show stable, localized, single and multi-spot patterns of three classes - stationary, moving, and rotating - that exist within a limited range of parameter values in the two-dimensional Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion model with ${\sigma} =…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-12 Robert P. Munafo

The population model of Busenberg and Travis is a paradigmatic model in ecology and tumour modelling due to its ability to capture interesting phenomena like the segregation of populations. Its singular mathematical structure enforces the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Gonzalo Galiano , Víctor González-Tabernero

Cooperative behaviors arising from bacterial cell-to-cell communication can be modeled by reaction-diffusion equations having only a single diffusible component. This paper presents the following three contributions for the systematic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hiroki Miyazako , Yutaka Hori , Shinji Hara

Turing instabilities of reaction-diffusion systems can only arise if the diffusivities of the chemical species are sufficiently different. This threshold is unphysical in most systems with $N=2$ diffusing species, forcing experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Pierre A. Haas , Raymond E. Goldstein

The Turing instability paradigm is revisited in the context of a multispecies diffusion scheme derived from a self-consistent microscopic formulation. The analysis is developed with reference to the case of two species. These latter share…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Duccio Fanelli , Claudia Cianci , Francesca Di Patti

A local agglomeration of cooperators can support the survival or spreading of cooperation, even when cooperation is predicted to die out according to the replicator equation, which is often used in evolutionary game theory to study the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-06 Dirk Helbing

We explain the principles of gene expression pattern stabilization in systems of interacting, diffusible morphogens, with dynamically established source regions. Using a reaction-diffusion model with step-function production term, we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 M. Majka , R. D. J. G. Ho , M. Zagorski

This article is concerned with the stability and long-time dynamics of structures arising from a structureless state. The paradigm is suggested by developmental biology, where morphogenesis is thought to result from a competition between…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-06-18 Hans G. Kaper , Shouhong Wang , Masoud Yari

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

Turing instability in activator-inhibitor systems provides a paradigm of nonequilibrium pattern formation; it has been extensively investigated for biological and chemical processes. Turing pattern formation should furthermore be possible…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-05-13 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We consider reaction-diffusion equations on a thick curved surface and obtain a set of effective R-D equation to ${\cal O}(\epsilon^2)$, where $\epsilon$ is the surface thickness. We observe that the R-D systems on these curved surfaces can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-10 Sankaran Nampoothiri

Although the pattern formation on polymer gels has been considered as a result of the mechanical instability due to the volume phase transition, we found a macroscopic surface pattern formation not caused by the mechanical instability. It…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Katsuragi