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This paper is devoted to investigate the pattern formation of a volume-filling chemotaxis model with logistic cell growth. We first apply the local stability analysis to establish sufficient conditions of destabilization for uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Yazhou Han , Zhongfang Li , Jicheng Tao , Manjun Ma

Pattern formation from homogeneity is well-studied, but less is known concerning symmetry-breaking instabilities in heterogeneous media. It is nontrivial to separate observed spatial patterning due to inherent spatial heterogeneity from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-10 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Thomas E. Woolley , Eamonn A. Gaffney

Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

Alan Turing's work in Morphogenesis has received wide attention during the past 60 years. The central idea behind his theory is that two chemically interacting diffusible substances are able to generate stable spatial patterns, provided…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-29 Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago , Pablo Padilla

The problem of pattern formation in a generic two species reaction--diffusion model is studied, under the hypothesis that only one species can diffuse. For such a system, the classical Turing instability cannot take place. At variance, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-16 Laura Cantini , Claudia Cianci , Duccio Fanelli , Emma Massi , Luigi Barletti

Turing instabilities for a two species reaction-diffusion systems is studied under anisotropic diffusion. More specifically, the diffusion constants which characterize the ability of the species to relocate in space are direction sensitive.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Daniel M. Busiello , Gwendoline Planchon , Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

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

We investigate a nonlocal single-species reaction-diffusion-advection model that integrates the spatial memory of previously visited locations and nonlocal detection in space, resulting in a coupled PDE-ODE system reflective of several…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Di Liu , Yurij Salmaniw , Jonathan R. Potts , Junping Shi , Hao Wang

A diffusive epidemic model with an infection-dependent recovery rate is formulated in this paper. Multiple constant steady states and spatially homogeneous periodic solutions are first proven by bifurcation analysis of the reaction…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Wael El Khateeb , Chanaka Kottegoda , Chunhua Shan

We present a condition that guarantees spatially uniformity in the solution trajectories of a diffusively-coupled compartmental ODE model, where each compartment represents a spatial domain of components interconnected through diffusion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-08-22 S. Yusef Shafi

The spatiotemporal pattern formation is studied in the catalytic carbon monoxide oxidation reaction that takes into account the diffusion processes over the Pt(110) surface, which may contain structurally different areas. These areas are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-27 I. S. Bzovska , I. M. Mryglod

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

The presence of one or more species at some spatial locations but not others is a central matter in ecology. This phenomenon is related to ecological pattern formation. Nonlocal interactions can be considered as one of the mechanisms…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Ozgur Aydogmus

Diffusion plays an important role in a wide variety of phenomena, from bacterial quorum sensing to the dynamics of traffic flow. While it generally tends to level out gradients and inhomogeneities, diffusion has nonetheless been shown to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-03 Alexandre Champagne-Ruel , Sascha Zakaib-Bernier , Paul Charbonneau

This paper addresses the question of how population diffusion affects the formation of the spatial patterns in the spatial epidemic model by Turing mechanisms. In particular, we present theoretical analysis to results of the numerical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-09-29 Quan-Xing Liu , Zhen Jin

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the pattern formation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise, for example, from modeling of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

Spatiotemporal patterns are common in biological systems. For electrically-coupled cells previous studies of pattern formation have mainly used external forcing as the main bifurcation parameter. The purpose of this paper is to show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-02 H. O. Fatoyinbo , R. G. Brown , D. J. W. Simpson , B. van Brunt

In coupled reaction-diffusion systems, modes with two different length scales can interact to produce a wide variety of spatiotemporal patterns. Three-wave interactions between these modes can explain the occurrence of spatially complex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-14 Jennifer K. Castelino , Daniel J. Ratliff , Alastair M. Rucklidge , Priya Subramanian , Chad M. Topaz

This paper investigates pattern formation in reaction--diffusion systems with both diffusive and nondiffusive components, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for diffusion-driven instability (DDI) and establishing the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Théo André , Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Finn Münnich

Spatio-temporal patterns emerging from an initial quiescent, uniform state is a phenomenon observed in many dynamical systems sustained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, the practical application of which has only recently begun to be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-05 Vinod Ramakrishnan , Michael J. Frazier