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Stochastic chemical systems with diffusion are modeled with a reaction-diffusion master equation. On a macroscopic level, the governing equation is a reaction-diffusion equation for the averages of the chemical species. On a mesoscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Stefan Engblom , Lars Ferm , Andreas Hellander , Per Lötstedt

We set up a rigorous thermodynamic description of reaction-diffusion systems driven out of equilibrium by time-dependent space-distributed chemostats. Building on the assumption of local equilibrium, nonequilibrium thermodynamic potentials…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Gianmaria Falasco , Riccardo Rao , Massimiliano Esposito

It has been argued that there is biological and modeling evidence that a non-linear diffusion coefficient of the type D(b) = D_0 b^{k} underlies the formation of a number of growth patterns of bacterial colonies. We study a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Mueller , W. van Saarloos

Model-based reinforcement learning methods often use learning only for the purpose of estimating an approximate dynamics model, offloading the rest of the decision-making work to classical trajectory optimizers. While conceptually simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sergey Levine

We present a mathematical study for the development of multiple sclerosis based on a reaction-diffusion system. The model describes interactions among different populations of human cells, motion of immune cells stimulated by cytokines,…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-07 Romina Travaglini

Diffusion processes are instrumental to describe the movement of a continuous quantity in a generic network of interacting agents. Here, we present a probabilistic framework for diffusion in networks and propose to classify agent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Matthias Wildemeersch , Tony Q. S. Quek

Nonintegrable systems thermalize, leading to the emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics. Typically, this hydrodynamics is diffusive. We use the effective field theory (EFT) of diffusion to compute higher-point functions of conserved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Luca V. Delacretaz , Ruchira Mishra

Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common mathematical models in the natural sciences and are used to model systems that combine reactions with diffusive motion. However, rather than normal diffusion, anomalous subdiffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-23 Amanda M Alexander , Sean D Lawley

In this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting fluid dynamics. It uses a denoising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yannick Gachnang , Vismay Churiwala

We investigate pattern formation in a driven mixture of two repulsive particles by introducing a Field-based Lattice Model (FLM), a hybrid model that combines aspects of the driven Widom-Rowlison lattice gas (DWRLG) and its statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-08 G. E. Freire Oliveira , R. Dickman , M. O. Lavrentovich , R. K. P. Zia

The process of diffusion is the most elementary stochastic transport process. Brownian motion, the representative model of diffusion, played a important role in the advancement of scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Alexandre Bovet

Spontaneous pattern formation in living systems is driven by reaction-diffusion chemistry and active mechanics. The feedback between chemical and mechanical forces is often essential to robust pattern formation, yet it remains poorly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Clara del Junco , André Estevez-Torres , Ananyo Maitra

Models of diffusion driven pattern formation that rely on the Turing mechanism are utilized in many areas of science. However, many such models suffer from the defect of requiring fine tuning of parameters or an unrealistic separation of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Thomas Butler , Nigel Goldenfeld

Mathematical modeling is now used commonly in the analysis of signaling networks. With advances in high resolution microscopy, the spatial location of different signaling molecules and the spatio-temporal dynamics of signaling microdomains…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-26 Jasmine Nirody , Padmini Rangamani

Humans naturally obtain intuition about the interactions between and the stability of rigid objects by observing and interacting with the world. It is this intuition that governs the way in which we regularly configure objects in our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luzhe Sun , Takuma Yoneda , Samuel W. Wheeler , Tianchong Jiang , Matthew R. Walter

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

The main objective of this paper is to present a generic modelling framework, for the diffusive mass transport through the turbulent, reactive boundary layer of multi-component fluid mixtures that precipitate on the wall. The modelling is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-12 Sverre Gullikstad Johnsen , Stein Tore Johansen , Bernd Wittgens

The formation of protein patterns inside cells is generically described by reaction-diffusion models. The study of such systems goes back to Turing, who showed how patterns can emerge from a homogenous steady state when two reactive…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Manon C. Wigbers , Fridtjof Brauns , Tobias Hermann , Erwin Frey

Diffusion processes in networks are increasingly used to model the spread of information and social influence. In several applications in computational sustainability such as the spread of wildlife, infectious diseases and traffic mobility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Akshat Kumar , Daniel Sheldon , Biplav Srivastava

Localised patterns are often observed in models for dryland vegetation, both as peaks of vegetation in a desert state and as gaps within a vegetated state, known as `fairy circles'. Recent results from radial spatial dynamics show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Dan J. Hill