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We consider reaction-diffusion fronts in spatially periodic bistable media with large periods. Whereas the homogenization regime associated with small periods had been well studied for bistable or Fisher-KPP reactions and, in the latter…

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We investigate dynamical heterogeneities in the collective relaxation of a concentrated microgel system, for which the packing fraction can be conveniently varied by changing the temperature. The packing fraction dependent mechanical…

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A general system of several ordinary differential equations coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded domain with zero-flux boundary condition is studied in the context of pattern formation. These initial-boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

We analyze a spatially extended version of a well-known model of forest-savanna dynamics, which presents as a system of nonlinear partial integro-differential equations, and study necessary conditions for pattern-forming bifurcations.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-28 Denis D. Patterson , Simon A. Levin , A. Carla Staver , Jonathan D. Touboul

Understanding how species persist under interacting stressors is a central challenge in ecology. We develop a spatially explicit reaction-diffusion framework to investigate competing species in landscapes shaped by climate variability,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-02 Ton Viet Ta

This paper is concerned with moving mesh finite difference solution of partial differential equations. It is known that mesh movement introduces an extra convection term and its numerical treatment has a significant impact on the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Weizhang Huang

This paper addresses the existence and spectral stability of traveling fronts for nonlinear hyperbolic equations with a positive "damping" term and a reaction function of bistable type. Particular cases of the former include the relaxed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramón G. Plaza , Chiara Simeoni

The notion of periodic two-scale convergence and the method of periodic unfolding are prominent and useful tools in multiscale modeling and analysis of PDEs with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients. In this paper we are interested in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Martin Heida , Stefan Neukamm , Mario Varga

This paper investigates the conditions for the stability and emergence of patterns in a new three-component reaction-diffusion system. The system describes the coexistence and interaction of water reservoirs, vegetation, and bushfire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in various biological and soft matter systems. This anomalous dynamics is typically attributed to heterogeneous environments inducing spatiotemporal variations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-20 Seongyu Park , Xavier Durang , Ralf Metzler , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Spatial self-organization emerges in distributed systems exhibiting local interactions when nonlinearities and the appropriate propagation of signals are at work. These kinds of phenomena can be modeled with different frameworks, typically…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-23 Adriano Bonforti , Salva Duran-Nebreda , Raul Montañez , Ricard Solé

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

A multi-phase-field model for the description of the discontinuous precipitation reaction is formulated which takes into account surface diffusion along grain boundaries and interfaces as well as volume diffusion. Simulations reveal that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-04 Lynda Amirouche , Mathis Plapp

Pattern formation often occurs in spatially extended physical, biological and chemical systems due to an instability of the homogeneous steady state. The type of the instability usually prescribes the resulting spatio-temporal patterns and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-04-14 David Schueler , Sergio Alonso , Alessandro Torcini , Markus Baer

This work focuses on dynamics arising from reaction-diffusion equations , where the profile of propagation is no longer characterized by a single front, but by a layer of several fronts which we call a propagating terrace. This means,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

We study diffusion-driven pattern-formation in networks of networks, a class of multilayer systems, where different layers have the same topology, but different internal dynamics. Agents are assumed to disperse within a layer by undergoing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-28 Andreas Brechtel , Philipp Gramlich , Daniel Ritterskamp , Barbara Drossel , Thilo Gross

Front propagation in two dimensional steady and unsteady cellular flows is investigated in the limit of very fast reaction and sharp front, i.e., in the geometrical optics limit. In the steady case, by means of a simplified model, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Cencini , A. Torcini , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of the transverse field quantum Ising chain evolving from an inhomogeneous initial state given by joining two macroscopically different semi-infinite chains. We obtain integral expressions for all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-11 Márton Kormos

The influence of a periodic spatial forcing on the pattern formation in a generalized Cahn-Hilliard model is studied in order to describe the pattern formation in Langmuir-Blodgett transfer onto prestructured substrates. The occurring…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-11-13 Markus Wilczek , Svetlana V. Gurevich

It is known that solutions of nonlocal dispersal evolution equations do not become smoother in space as time elapses. This lack of space regularity would cause a lot of difficulties in studying transition fronts in nonlocal equations. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen