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This paper concerns a general class of PDE-ODE reaction-diffusion systems, which features a singular fast-reaction limit towards a reaction-diffusion equation coupled to a scalar hysteresis operator. As prototypical application, we present…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Klemens Fellner , Christian Münch

The dynamics of ecological as well as chemical systems may depend on heterogeneous configurations. Heterogeneity in reaction-diffusion systems often increase modelling and simulating difficulties when non-linear effects are present. One…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-27 Orlando Silva

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion (MCRD) systems are widely used to model phase separation and pattern formation in cell polarity, biomolecular condensates, and ecological systems. Numerical simulations and formal asymptotic analysis…

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In this paper we are interested in a degenerate parabolic system of reaction-diffusion equations arising in biology when studying cell adhesion at the protein level. In this modeling the unknown is the couple of the distribution laws of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Philippe Grillot , Simona Mancini , Michèle Grillot

Coupling diffusion process of signaling molecules with nonlinear interactions of intracellular processes and cellular growth/transformation leads to a system of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Madoka Nakayama , Izumi Takagi

In this article we present a computational framework for isolating spatial patterns arising in the steady states of reaction-diffusion systems. Such systems have been used to model many different phenomena in areas such as developmental and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Laura Murphy , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman , Anotida Madzvamuse

Spatio-temporal biochemical signaling in a large class of protein-protein interaction networks is well modeled by a reaction-diffusion system. The global existence of the solution to the reaction-diffusion system is determined by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Insoon Yang , Claire J. Tomlin

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

Reaction-diffusion models have been used over decades to study biological systems. In this context, evolution equations for probability distribution functions and the associated stochastic differential equations have nowadays become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-09 C. Escudero , S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , F. Le Vot

Dynamical reaction-diffusion processes and meta-population models are standard modeling approaches for a wide variety of phenomena in which local quantities - such as density, potential and particles - diffuse and interact according to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Colizza , R. Pastor-Satorras , A. Vespignani

In this paper we present computational techniques to investigate the solutions of two-component, nonlinear reaction-diffusion (RD) systems on arbitrary surfaces. We build on standard techniques for linear and nonlinear analysis of RD…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Daljit Singh J. Dhillon , Michel C. Milinkovitch , Matthias Zwicker

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

We study a large class of 1D reaction diffusion models with quenched disorder using a real space renormalization group method (RSRG) which yields exact results at large time. Particles (e.g. of several species) undergo diffusion with random…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Pierre Le Doussal , Cecile Monthus

The macroscopic behavior of the solution of a coupled system of partial differential equations arising in the modeling of reaction-diffusion processes in periodic porous media is analyzed. Our mathematical model can be used for studying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-19 G. Cardone , C. Perugia , C. Timofte

Reaction-diffusion systems have been proposed as a model for pattern formation and morphogenesis. The Fickian diffusion typically employed in these constructions model the Brownian motion of particles. The biological and chemical elements…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-09 Siddhartha Srivastava , Krishna Garikipati

This is a pedagogical account on reaction-diffusion systems and their relationship with integrable quantum spin chains. Reaction-diffusion systems are paradigmatic examples of non-equilibrium systems. Their long-time behaviour is strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Malte Henkel

Recently, the problem of boundary stabilization for unstable linear constant-coefficient coupled reaction-diffusion systems was solved by means of the backstepping method. The extension of this result to systems with advection terms and…

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Protein aggregation on the plasma membrane (PM) is of critical importance to many cellular processes such as cell adhesion, endocytosis, fibrillar conformation, and vesicle transport. Lateral diffusion of protein aggregates or clusters on…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-15 L. M. Stolerman , M. Getz , S. G. Llewellyn Smith , M. Holst , P. Rangamani

We show that the flagellar beat of bull spermatozoa and Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii can be modelled by a minimal, geometrically nonlinear reaction-diffusion system. Model solutions are spatio-temporally animated patterns describing flagellar…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 James F. Cass , Hermes Bloomfield-Gadelha

A coupled system of nonlinear mixed-type equations modeling early stages of angiogenesis is analyzed in a bounded domain. The system consists of stochastic differential equations describing the movement of the positions of the tip and stalk…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Markus Fellner , Ansgar Jüngel