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We study a stochastic epidemic model consisting of elements (organisms in a community or cells in tissue) with fixed positions, in which damage or disease is transmitted by diffusing agents ("signals") emitted by infected individuals. The…

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Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems have classically been studied only in RD systems which do not explicitly depend on independent variables such as space. In practise, many systems for which Turing patterning is important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Jacob C. Vandenberg , Mark B. Flegg

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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…

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We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on complex networks assuming finite propagation. Extending to networked systems the framework introduced by Cattaneo in the 40's, we remove the…

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This work deals with a chemotaxis model where an external source involving a sub and superquadratic growth effect contrasted by nonlocal dampening reaction influences the motion of a cell density attracted by a chemical signal. We study the…

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In this paper, we derive a new chemotaxis model with degenerate diffusion and density-dependent chemotactic sensitivity, and we provide a more realistic description of cell migration process for its early and late stages. Different from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Chunhua Jin , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

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…

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This paper provides the phase transition analysis of a reaction diffusion equations system modeling dynamic instability of microtubules. For this purpose we have generalized the macroscopic model studied by Mour\~ao et all [MSS]. This model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Shantia Yarahmadian , Masoud Yari

Enzymes have been recently proposed to have mechanical activity associated with their chemical activity. In a number of recent studies, it has been reported that enzymes undergo enhanced diffusion in the presence of their corresponding…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Tunrayo Adeleke-Larodo , Pierre Illien , Ramin Golestanian

Diffusion processes are widespread in biological and chemical systems, where they play a fundamental role in the exchange of substances at the cellular level and in determining the rate of chemical reactions. Recently, the classical picture…

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In the present paper, we are concerned with an SIS epidemic reaction-diffusion model governed by mass action infection mechanism and linear birth-death growth with no flux boundary condition. By performing qualitative analysis, we study the…

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We generalize the Dogterom-Leibler model for microtubule dynamics [DL] to the case where the rates of elongation as well as the lifetimes of the elongating and shortening phases are a function of GTP-tubulin concentration. We study also the…

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This paper deals with the micro-macro derivation of virus models coupled with a reaction diffusion models that generates the dynamics in space of the virus particles. The first part of the presentation focuses, starting from [5, 6] on a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Diletta Burini , Nadia Chouhad

We derive general kinetic and hydrodynamic models of chemotactic aggregation that describe certain features of the morphogenesis of biological colonies (like bacteria, amoebae, endothelial cells or social insects). Starting from a…

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Chemotaxis refers to the directed movement of cells in response to a chemical signal called chemoattractant. A crucial point in the mathematical modeling of chemotactic processes is the correct description of the chemotactic sensitivity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Herbert Egger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , Matthias Schlottbom

Many animals have patterned fur, feathers, or scales, such as the stripes of a zebra. Turing models, or reaction-diffusion systems, are a class of mathematical models of interacting species that have been successfully used to generate…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Michael F. Staddon

Enhanced diffusion and anti-chemotaxis of enzymes have been reported in several experiments in the last decade, opening up entirely new avenues of research in the bio-nanosciences both at the applied and fundamental level. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Daniel Maria Busiello , Paolo De Los Rios , Francesco Piazza