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We survey recent results on reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuous hysteretic nonlinearities. We connect these equations with free boundary problems and introduce a related notion of spatial transversality for initial data and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Mark Curran , Pavel Gurevich , Sergey Tikhomirov

We present new results of existence of global solutions for a class of reaction cross-diffusion systems of two equations presenting a cross-diffusion term in the first equation, and possibly presenting a self-diffusion term in any (or both)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Ariane Trescases

Making sense of complex inhomogeneous systems composed of many interacting species is a grand challenge that pervades basically all natural sciences. Phase separation and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems have been largely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-04 Joshua F. Robinson , Thomas Machon , Thomas Speck

Electro-energy-reaction-diffusion systems are thermodynamically consistent continuum models for reaction-diffusion processes that account for temperature and electrostatic effects in a way that total charge and energy are conserved. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Katharina Hopf , Michael Kniely , Alexander Mielke

Reaction-diffusion processes are the foundational model for a diverse range of complex systems, ranging from biochemical reactions to social agent-based phenomena. The underlying dynamics of these systems occur at the individual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Mauricio J. del Razo , Margarita Kostré

A spatio-temporal evolution of chemicals appearing in a reversible enzyme reaction and modelled by a four component reaction-diffusion system with the reaction terms obtained by the law of mass action is considered. The large time behaviour…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Jan Elias

We present a novel computational framework for diffusive-reactive systems that satisfies the non-negative constraint and maximum principles on general computational grids. The governing equations for the concentration of reactants and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-11 K. B. Nakshatrala , M. K. Mudunuru , A. J. Valocchi

Mathematical modeling is now used commonly in the analysis of signaling networks. With advances in high resolution microscopy, the spatial location of different signaling molecules and the spatio-temporal dynamics of signaling microdomains…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-26 Jasmine Nirody , Padmini Rangamani

This paper is concerned with analysis of coupled fractional reaction-diffusion equations. It provides analytical comparison for the fractional and regular reaction-diffusion systems. As an example, the reaction-diffusion model with cubic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasyl Gafiychuk , Bohdan Datsko , Vitaliy Meleshko

Stochastic chemical systems with diffusion are modeled with a reaction-diffusion master equation. On a macroscopic level, the governing equation is a reaction-diffusion equation for the averages of the chemical species. On a mesoscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Stefan Engblom , Lars Ferm , Andreas Hellander , Per Lötstedt

A combination of reaction-diffusion models with moving-boundary problems yields a system in which the diffusion (spreading and penetration) and reaction (transformation) evolve the system's state and geometry over time. These systems can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mojtaba Barzegari , Liesbet Geris

By identifying potential composite states that occur in the Sel'kov-Gray-Scott (GS) model, we show that it can be considered as an effective theory at large spatio-temporal scales, arising from a more \textit{fundamental} theory (which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-24 Fred Cooper , Gourab Ghoshal , Alec Pawling , Juan Pérez Mercader

Reaction-diffusion systems offer a powerful framework for understanding self-organized patterns in biological systems, yet controlling these patterns remains a significant challenge. As a consequence, we present a rigorous framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Hamza Faquir , Saad Benjelloun , Mohamed Adlene Maghenem , Irene Otero-Muras , Adnane Saoud

In this paper, we propose and analyze a positivity-preserving, energy stable numerical scheme for certain type reaction-diffusion systems involving the Law of Mass Action with the detailed balance condition. The numerical scheme is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Yiwei Wang

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

We investigate a recently proposed cross-diffusion system modelling the growth of gliobastoma taking into account size exclusion both in the migration and proliferation process. In addition to degenerate nonlinear cross-diffusion the model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Martin Burger , Patricia Friele , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

The GENERIC theory provides a framework for the description of non-equilibrium phenomena in isolated systems beyond local thermal equilibrium and beyond linear non-equilibrium (i.e., linear relations between thermodynamic forces and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-02 Miguel Hoyuelos

We develop a framework describing the dynamics and thermodynamics of open non-ideal reaction-diffusion systems, which embodies Flory-Huggins theories of mixtures and chemical reaction network theories. Our theory elucidates the mechanisms…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-05 Francesco Avanzini , Timur Aslyamov , Étienne Fodor , Massimiliano Esposito

Accurate and robust spatial orders are ubiquitous in living systems. In 1952, Alan Turing proposed an elegant mechanism for pattern formation based on spontaneous breaking of the spatial translational symmetry in the underlying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-07 Dongliang Zhang , Chenghao Zhang , Qi Ouyang , Yuhai Tu

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