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The study of pattern emergence together with exploration of the exemplar Turing model is enjoying a renaissance both from theoretical and experimental perspective. Here, we implement a stability analysis of spatially dependent reaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-06 Michal Kozák , Eamonn A Gaffney , Václav Klika

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

In this work we investigate the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Brusselator system. Through linear stability analysis of the basic solution we determine the Turing and the oscillatory instability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino , V. Sciacca

Turing (or double-diffusive) instabilities describe pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, and were proposed in 1952 as a potential mechanism behind pattern formation in nature, such as leopard spots and zebra stripes. Because the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 M. W. Noble , M. R. Tonks , S. P. Fitzgerald

Turing patterns emerge from a spatially uniform state following a linear instability driven by diffusion. Features of the eventual pattern (stabilized by non-linearities) are already present in the initial unstable modes. On a uniform flat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-31 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Henry Shackleton

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 process of pattern formation for a multi-species model anchored on a time varying network is studied. A non homogeneous perturbation superposed to an homogeneous stable fixed point can amplify, as follows a novel mechanism of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Julien Petit , Ben Lauwens , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

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 mass and size distributions are the key characteristics of any astrophysical objects, including the densest clumps comprising the cold phase of multiphase environments. In our recent papers, we showed how individual clouds of various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Tim Waters , Daniel Proga

Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems have classically been studied only in RD systems which do not explicitly depend on independent variables such as space. In practise, many systems for which Turing patterning is important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Jacob C. Vandenberg , Mark B. Flegg

We analyse extinction maps of nearby Giant Molecular Clouds to forge a link between driving processes of turbulence and modes of star formation. Our investigation focuses on cloud structure in the column density range above the self…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

We study a p-adic reaction-diffusion system and the associated Turing patterns. We establish an instability criteria and show that the Turing patterns are not classical patterns consisting of alternating domains. Instead of this, a Turing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

The Turing patterning mechanism is believed to underly the formation of repetitive structures in development, such as zebrafish stripes and mammalian digits, but it has proved difficult to isolate the specific biochemical species…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-22 Stephen Smith , Neil Dalchau

The diffusion-driven Turing instability is a potential mechanism for spatial pattern formation in numerous biological and chemical systems. However, engineering these patterns and demonstrating that they are produced by this mechanism is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Antonio Matas-Gil , Robert G. Endres

A theory of clustering of inertial particles advected by a turbulent velocity field caused by an instability of their spatial distribution is suggested. The reason for the clustering instability is a combined effect of the particles inertia…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tov Elperin , Nathan Kleeorin , Victor S. L'vov , Igor Rogachevskii , Dmitry Sokoloff

We examine the idea that diffuse and giant molecular clouds and their substructure form as density fluctuations induced by large scale interstellar turbulence. We do this by investigating the topology of various fields in realistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Javier Ballesteros-Paredes , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , John Scalo

We explore whether observed molecular clouds could include a substantial population of unbound clouds. Using simulations which include only turbulence and gravity, we are able to match observed relations and naturally reproduce the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Rachel L. Ward , James Wadsley , Alison Sills

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 emergence of organized multiscale patterns resulting from convection is ubiquitous, observed throughout different cloud types. The reproduction of such patterns by general circulation models remains a challenge due to the complex nature…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Mickael D. Chekroun , Tom Dror , Orit Altaratz , Ilan Koren

We estimate density of defects frozen into a biological Turing pattern which was turned on at a finite rate. A self-locking of gene expression in individual cells, which makes the Turing transition discontinuous, stabilizes the pattern…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga