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Self-organization, the ability of a system of microscopically interacting entities to shape macroscopically ordered structures, is ubiquitous in Nature. Spatio-temporal patterns are abundantly observed in a large plethora of applications,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-17 Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Philip K. Maini

Reaction-diffusion processes on networked systems have received mounting attention in the past two decades, and the corresponding theory of network dynamics has been continuously enriched with the advancement of network science. Recently,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-30 Junyuan Shi , Linhe Zhu

Turing instabilities of reaction-diffusion systems can only arise if the diffusivities of the chemical species are sufficiently different. This threshold is unphysical in most systems with $N=2$ diffusing species, forcing experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Pierre A. Haas , Raymond E. Goldstein

We are surrounded by spatio-temporal patterns resulting from the interaction of the numerous basic units constituting natural or human-made systems. In presence of diffusive-like coupling, Turing theory has been largely applied to explain…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Marie Dorchain , S. Nirmala Jenifer , Timoteo Carletti

We investigate dynamics near Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion systems posed on the real line. Linear analysis predicts diffusive decay of small perturbations. We construct a "normal form" coordinate system near such Turing patterns…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Arnd Scheel , Qiliang Wu

Pattern formation in the classical and fractional Schnakenberg equations is studied to understand the nonlocal effects of anomalous diffusion. Starting with linear stability analysis, we find that if the activator and inhibitor have the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-06-21 Hatim Khudhair , Yanzhi Zhang , Nobuyuki Fukawa

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Brocchieri Elisabetta , Soresina Cinzia

We study a process of pattern formation for a generic model of species anchored to the nodes of a network where local reactions take place, and that experience non-reciprocal long-range interactions, encoded by the network directed links.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Riccardo Muolo

The phenomenon of pattern formation in nonlinear optical resonators is commonly related to an off-resonance excitation mechanism, where patterns occur due to mismatch between the excitation and resonance frequency. In this paper we show…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Kestutis Staliunas , Victor J. Sanchez-Morcillo

In this work we study the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Lengyel--Epstein system. Via the linear stability analysis we determine both the Turing and the Hopf instability boundaries and we show…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-20 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino

The study of reaction-diffusion systems on networks is of paramount relevance for the understanding of nonlinear processes in systems where the topology is intrinsically discrete, such as the brain. Until now reaction-diffusion systems have…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Lorenzo Giambagli , Lucille Calmon , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

Originating from the pioneering study of Alan Turing, the bifurcation analysis predicting spatial pattern formation from a spatially uniform state for diffusing morphogens or chemical species that interact through nonlinear reactions is a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-18 Merlin Pelz , Michael J. Ward

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 paper the Turing pattern formation mechanism of a two component reaction-diffusion system modeling the Schnakenberg chemical reaction coupled to linear cross-diffusion terms is studied. The linear cross-diffusion terms favors the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-08 G. Gambino , S. Lupo , M. Sammartino

The Turing instability is a paradigmatic route to patterns formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Following a diffusion-driven instability, homogeneous fixed points can become unstable when subject to external perturbation. As a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-02 Joseph D. Challenger , Raffaella Burioni , Duccio Fanelli

Chemically active mixtures exhibit complex patterns that emerge from the interplay of physical interactions and reactions among components. Individually, these two processes are well-understood: Physical interactions can give rise to phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-30 Chengjie Luo , Yicheng Qiang , Guido L. A. Kusters , David Zwicker

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

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

The Turing instability paradigm is revisited in the context of a multispecies diffusion scheme derived from a self-consistent microscopic formulation. The analysis is developed with reference to the case of two species. These latter share…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Duccio Fanelli , Claudia Cianci , Francesca Di Patti

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