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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…

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Diffusion is the result of repeated random scattering. It governs a wide range of phenomena from Brownian motion, to heat flow through window panes, neutron flux in fuel rods, dispersion of light in human tissue, and electronic conduction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhou Shi , Azriel Z. Genack

Diffusion is a fundamental aspect of transport processes in biological systems, and thus, in the development of life itself. And yet, the diffusive dynamics of active fluids with directed rotation, known as chiral fluids, has not been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-21 Francisco Vega Reyes , Miguel A. López-Castaño , Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas

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

Gene expression time delays, modelling the complex biological processes of gene transcription and translation, have been shown to play an important role in cellular dynamics. Time delays, motivated by the gene expression process, can also…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-24 Alec Sargood

We present a conditional diffusion model for electromagnetic inverse design that generates structured media geometries directly from target differential scattering cross-section profiles, bypassing expensive iterative optimization. Our 1D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mikhail Tsukerman , Konstantin Grotov , Pavel Ginzburg

We propose TaxaDiffusion, a taxonomy-informed training framework for diffusion models to generate fine-grained animal images with high morphological and identity accuracy. Unlike standard approaches that treat each species as an independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Mridul Khurana , Rajiv Ramnath , Anuj Karpatne , Wei-Lun Chao , Cheng Zhang

Robustness of spatial pattern against perturbations is an indispensable property of developmental processes for organisms, which need to adapt to changing environments. Although specific mechanisms for this robustness have been extensively…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Kunihiko Kaneko

Many existing studies on pattern formation in the reaction-diffusion systems rely on deterministic models. However, environmental noise is often a major factor which leads to significant changes in the spatiotemporal dynamics. In this…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-30 Anuj Kumar Sirohi , Malay Banerjee , Anirban Chakraborti

We consider a basic one-dimensional model of diffusion which allows to obtain a diversity of diffusive regimes whose speed depends on the moments of the per-site trapping time. This model is closely related to the continuous time random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Elena Floriani , Ricardo Lima , Edgardo Ugalde

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the spontaneous generation of self-organized patterns, hypothesised to play a role in the formation of many of the magnificent patterns observed in Nature. In several cases of interest, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Philip K. Maini , Timoteo Carletti

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

We investigate travelling wave solutions in reaction-diffusion models of animal range expansion in the case that population diffusion is density-dependent. We find that the speed of the selected wave depends critically on the strength of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Beth M. Stokes , Tim Rogers , Richard James

The reaction-diffusion waves of proteins are known to be involved in fundamental cellular functions, such as cell migration, cell division, and vesicular transportation. In some of these phenomena, pattern formation on the membranes is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-16 Naoki Tamemoto , Hiroshi Noguchi

GTPase molecules are important regulators in cells that continuously run through an activation/deactivation and membrane-attachment/membrane-detachment cycle. Activated GTPase is able to localize in parts of the membranes and to induce cell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

For a substance diffusing on a curved surface, we obtain an explicit relation valid for very small values of the time, between the local concentration, the diffusion coefficient, the intrinsic spatial curvature and the time. We recover the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Balakrishnan

We investigate wrinkling patterns in a tri-layer torus consisting of an expanding thin outer layer, an intermediate soft layer and an inner core with a tunable shear modulus, inspired by pattern formation in developmental biologies, such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-25 Xiaoxiao Zhang , Patrick T. Mather , Mark J. Bowick , Teng Zhang

Intracellular protein patterns govern essential cellular functions by dynamically redistributing proteins between membrane-bound and cytosolic states, conserving their total numbers. This review presents a theoretical framework for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erwin Frey , Henrik Weyer

We study pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-advection-diffusion systems. We develop an approach based on Lyapunov-Bloch exponents to figure out the impact of a spatially periodic mixing flow on the stability of a spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-15 A. V. Straube , A. Pikovsky

Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lequan Lin , Zhengkun Li , Ruikun Li , Xuliang Li , Junbin Gao