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Living systems are maintained out-of-equilibrium by external driving forces. At stationarity, they exhibit emergent selection phenomena that break equilibrium symmetries and originate from the expansion of the accessible chemical space due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Shiling Liang , Paolo De Los Rios , Daniel Maria Busiello

We propose a general theoretical description of chemical reactions occurring on a catalytic surface with heterogeneous reactivity. The propagator of a diffusion-reaction process with eventual absorption on the heterogeneous partially…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Denis S. Grebenkov

The paper deals with reaction-diffusion equations involving a hysteretic discontinuity in the source term, which is defined at each spatial point. In particular, such problems describe chemical reactions and biological processes in which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-17 Pavel Gurevich , Roman Shamin , Sergey Tikhomirov

Statistical mechanics has grown without bounds in space. Statistical mechanics of point particles in an unbounded perfect gas is commonly accepted as a foundation for understanding many systems, including liquids like the concentrated salt…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-24 Bob Eisenberg

In numerical studies of the dynamics of unbound quantum mechanical systems, absorbing boundary conditions are frequently applied. Although this certainly provides a useful tool in facilitating the description of the system, its applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sølve Selstø , Simen Kvaal

The radiation (reaction, Robin) boundary condition for the continuum diffusion equation is widely used in chemical and biological applications to express reactive boundaries. The underlying trajectories of the diffusing particles are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-09-02 A. Singer , Z. Schuss , D. Holcman

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation on a 3D thin porous media of thickness $\varepsilon$ which is perforated by periodically distributed cylinders of size $\varepsilon$. On the boundary of the cylinders we prescribe a dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 María Anguiano

Realistic examples of reaction-diffusion phenomena governing spatial and spatiotemporal pattern formation are rarely isolated systems, either chemically or thermodynamically. However, even formulations of `open' reaction-diffusion systems…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-14 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Philip K. Maini , Denis Headon , Eamonn A. Gaffney

We present a method of deriving two boundary conditions at a thin membrane for diffusion from experimental data. This method can be really useful in complex membrane systems in which we do not know mechanisms of processes occurring within…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Katarzyna D. Lewandowska , Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

Understanding anomalous transport and reaction kinetics due to microscopic physical and chemical disorder is a long-standing goal in many fields including geophysics, biology, and engineering. We consider reaction-diffusion characterized by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Gerald J. Lapeyre , Marco Dentz

Large time dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems modeling some irreversible reaction networks are investigated. Depending on initial masses, these networks possibly possess boundary equilibria, where some of the chemical concentrations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Thi Lien Nguyen , Bao Quoc Tang

The effects of a boundary on reaction systems are examined in the framework of the general single-species reaction/coalescence process. The boundary naturally represents the reactants' container, but is applicable to exciton dynamics in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. E. Richardson , Y. Kafri

The celebrated experiment of Tuval et al. \cite{tuval2005bacterial} showed that the bacteria living a water drop can form a thin layer near the air-water interface, where a so-called chemotaxis-fluid system with physical boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-07 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Guangyi Hong , Zhi-an Wang

In this paper, we consider the large-time behavior of solutions of a reaction diffusion system arising from a nuclear reactor model with the Robin boundary conditions, which consists of two real-valued unknown functions. In particular, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Kosuke Kita , Mitsuharu Ôtani

Cosmological boundary conditions for particles and fields are often discussed as a Cauchy problem, in which configurations and conjugate momenta are specified on an "initial" time slice. But this is not the only way to specify boundary…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 J. M. Deutsch , Anthony Aguirre

We study whether the solutions of a parabolic equation with diffusion given by the fractional Laplacian and a dominating gradient term satisfy Dirichlet boundary data in the classical sense or in the generalized sense of viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Alexander Quaas , Andrei Rodríguez

We develop a theory of reversible diffusion-controlled reactions with generalized binding/unbinding kinetics. In this framework, a diffusing particle can bind to the reactive substrate after a random number of arrivals onto it, with a given…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Denis S. Grebenkov

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

Consider a finite system of diffusing particles coupled through a reactive boundary. Each particle is reflected, but may react with the boundary according to a killing mechanism which depends on the current reactivity of the boundary and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Eliana Fausti , Andreas Sojmark

The potential applications of boundary functionals of random processes, such as the extreme values of these processes, the moment of first reaching a fixed level, the value of the process at the moment of reaching the level, the moment of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 V. V. Ryazanov