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Reaction-diffusion processes across layered media arise in several scientific domains such as pattern-forming E. coli on agar substrates, epidermal-mesenchymal coupling in development, and symmetry-breaking in cell polarisation. We develop…

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Reaction diffusion equations have been used to model a wide range of biological phenomenon related to population spread and proliferation from ecology to cancer. It is commonly assumed that individuals in a population have homogeneous…

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The reaction-diffusion master equation is a stochastic model often utilized in the study of biochemical reaction networks in living cells. It is applied when the spatial distribution of molecules is important to the dynamics of the system.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Stefan Hellander , Linda Petzold

Spatio-temporal extensions of familiar compartment models for disease transmission incorporating diffusive behavior, or interactions between individuals at separate locations, are explored. The models considered have the character of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Joseph Rudnick , David Jasnow , Jorge Vinals

We study the mass-conserved reaction-diffusion system known as the wave-pinning model, which serves as a minimal framework for describing cell polarity. In this model, the interplay between reaction kinetics and slow diffusion forms a sharp…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shunsuke Kobayashi , Koya Sakakibara , Taikei Uechi

We propose a new model to describe diffusion processes within active deformable media. Our general theoretical framework is based on physical and mathematical considerations, and it suggests to use diffusion tensors directly coupled to…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-03 Christian Cherubini , Simonetta Filippi , Alessio Gizzi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

The goal of this work is to analyze the long-term behavior of reaction-diffusion systems arising in two-species chemical models and to identify the minimal set of modes that determine their dynamics. The models considered include, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Erika Hausenblas , Tsiry Avisoa Randrianasolo

We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bi-directional movements between base and destination locations on individual mobility networks. We provide a systematic analysis of generic dynamical features of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

We obtain classification, solvability and nonexistence theorems for positive stationary states of reaction-diffusion and Schr\"odinger systems involving a balance between repulsive and attractive terms. This class of systems contains PDE…

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This paper addresses the problem of learning reaction-diffusion (RD) systems from data while ensuring physical consistency and well-posedness of the learned models. Building on a regularization-based framework for structured model learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Erion Morina , Martin Holler

The recently introduced method of excess collisions (MEC) is modified to estimate diffusion-controlled reaction times inside systems of arbitrary size. The resulting MEC-E equations contain a set of empirical parameters, which have to be…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Merlitz , Konstantin V. Klenin , Chen-Xu Wu , Jörg Langowski

We consider a reaction-diffusion process with retardation. The particles, immersed in traps initially, remain inactive until another particle is annihilated spontaneously with a rate $\lambda$ at a certain point $\vec x$. In that case the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Michael Schulz , Steffen Trimper , Knud Zabrocki

A hybrid mesoscopic multi-particle collision model is used to study diffusion-influenced reaction kinetics. The mesoscopic particle dynamics conserves mass, momentum and energy so that hydrodynamic effects are fully taken into account.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kay Tucci , Raymond Kapral

Morphogenesis, the establishment and repair of emergent complex anatomy by groups of cells, is a fascinating and biomedically-relevant problem. One of its most fascinating aspects is that a developing embryo can reliably recover from…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-03 Joel Grodstein , Michael Levin

We study the effect of confinement on diffusion limited bimolecular reactions within a lattice model where a small number of reactants diffuse amongst a much larger number of inert particles. When the number of inert particles is held…

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We present a new modeling approach for G protein coupled receptors signaling systems, that take into account the compartmentalization of receptors and their effectors, both at plasma membrane and in dynamic intra-cellular vesicles called…

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This paper presents an energetic derivation of a class of multi-species reaction-diffusion systems incorporating various functional responses, with a focus on and application to ecological models. Starting point is a closed reaction network…

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In this paper we present a derivation and multiscale analysis of a mathematical model for plant cell wall biomechanics that takes into account both the microscopic structure of a cell wall coming from the cellulose microfibrils and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Mariya Ptashnyk , Brian Seguin

A system of replicators with Hebbian random couplings is studied using dynamical methods. The self-reproducing species are here characterized by a set of binary traits and interact based on complementarity. In the case of an extensive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Galla

Cross-diffusion systems play a central role in mathematical modelling, in which density-dependent dispersal and multiscale mechanisms can lead to spatial segregation and diffusion-driven instabilities. In several relevant examples,…

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