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Diffusion plays an important role in a wide variety of phenomena, from bacterial quorum sensing to the dynamics of traffic flow. While it generally tends to level out gradients and inhomogeneities, diffusion has nonetheless been shown to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-03 Alexandre Champagne-Ruel , Sascha Zakaib-Bernier , Paul Charbonneau

Spatially dependent parameters of a two-component chaotic reaction-diffusion PDE model describing ocean ecology are observed by sampling a single species. We estimate model parameters and the other species in the system by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Sean Kramer , Erik M. Bollt

To model bio-chemical reaction systems with diffusion one can either use stochastic, microscopic reaction-diffusion master equations or deterministic, macroscopic reaction-diffusion system. The connection between these two models is not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Malcolm Egan , Bao Quoc Tang

We present a multiscale approach to model diffusion in a crowded environment and its effect on the reaction rates. Diffusion in biological systems is often modeled by a discrete space jump process in order to capture the inherent noise of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-18 Lina Meinecke

We develop numerical methods for reaction-diffusion systems based on the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics (FHD). While the FHD formulation is formally described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), it becomes similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Changho Kim , Andy Nonaka , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev

In this work we study global well-posedness and large time behaviour for a typical reaction--diffusion system, which include degenerate diffusion, and whose non-linearities arise from chemical reactions. We show that there is an {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Amit Einav , Jeff Morgan , Bao Quoc Tang

We study the dynamics of the quantum phase distribution associated with the reduced density matrix of a system for a number of situations of practical importance, as the system evolves under the influence of its environment, interacting via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth

Chemotaxis and reactions are fundamental processes in biology, often intricately intertwined. Chemotaxis, in particular, can be crucial in maintaining and accelerating a reaction. In this work, we extend the investigation initiated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Crystianne L. De Andrade , Alexander A. Kiselev

By identifying potential composite states that occur in the Sel'kov-Gray-Scott (GS) model, we show that it can be considered as an effective theory at large spatio-temporal scales, arising from a more \textit{fundamental} theory (which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-24 Fred Cooper , Gourab Ghoshal , Alec Pawling , Juan Pérez Mercader

We consider the numerical solution of coupled volume-surface reaction-diffusion systems having a detailed balance equilibrium. Based on the conservation of mass, an appropriate quadratic entropy functional is identified and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Herbert Egger , Klemens Fellner , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , Bao Quoc Tang

Cells and organisms follow aligned structures in their environment, a process that can generate persistent migration paths. Kinetic transport equations are a popular modelling tool for describing biological movements at the mesoscopic…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-13 Nadia Loy , Thomas Hillen , Kevin John Painter

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

This paper addresses the problem of learning reaction-diffusion (RD) systems from data while ensuring physical consistency and well-posedness of the learned models. Building on a regularization-based framework for structured model learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Erion Morina , Martin Holler

We investigate the fast-reaction asymptotics for a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion (RD) system describing the penetration of the carbonation reaction in concrete. The technique of matched-asymptotics is used to show that the RD system…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-30 Jonathan D. Evans , Andrea Fernández , Adrian Muntean

A central challenge in materials science is characterizing chemical processes that are elusive to direct measurement, particularly in functional materials operating under realistic conditions. Here, we demonstrate that mechanical strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-04 Royal C. Ihuaenyi , Hongbo Zhao , Ruqing Fang , Ruobing Bai , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

The present paper is devoted to the investigation of the long term behavior of a class of singular multi-dimensional diffusion processes that get absorbed in finite time with probability one. Our focus is on the analysis of quasi-stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Alexandru Hening , Weiwei Qi , Zhongwei Shen , Yingfei Yi

We investigate the emergence of sustained spatio-temporal behaviors in reaction-phase separation systems. We focus on binary systems, in which either one or both species can phase separate, and we discuss the stability of the homogeneous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-08 Dino Osmanovic , Elisa Franco

Models of reaction diffusion processes usually employ discrete lattice models with particles interacting at the same site, resulting in localized reactions in the continuum limit. Here, various non-local interactions are considered, and two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chris D Greenman

We consider a model system consisting of two reaction-diffusion equations, where one species diffuses in a volume while the other species diffuses on the surface which surrounds the volume. The two equations are coupled via a nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Tang Quoc Bao , Klemens Fellner , Evangelos Latos