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General conditions are established under which reaction-cross-diffusion systems can undergo spatiotemporal pattern-forming instabilities. Recent work has focused on designing systems theoretically and experimentally to exhibit patterns with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-26 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Alan R. Champneys , Andrew L. Krause

Turing's reaction-diffusion theory of morphogenesis has been very successful in understanding macroscopic patterns within complex objects ranging from biological systems to sand dunes. However, this mechanism was never tested against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Yuki Fuseya , Hiroyasu Katsuno , Kamran Behnia , Aharon Kapitulnik

Numerical simulations of a simple reaction--diffusion model reveal a surprising variety of irregular spatio--temporal patterns. These patterns arise in response to finite--amplitude perturbations. Some of them resemble the steady irregular…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 John E. Pearson

In this paper we study pattern formation arising in a system of a single reaction-diffusion equation coupled with subsystem of ordinary differential equations, describing spatially-distributed growth of clonal populations of precancerous…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-14 Yuriy Golovaty , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Mariya Ptashnyk

This article is concerned with the stability and long-time dynamics of structures arising from a structureless state. The paradigm is suggested by developmental biology, where morphogenesis is thought to result from a competition between…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-06-18 Hans G. Kaper , Shouhong Wang , Masoud Yari

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the pattern formation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise, for example, from modeling of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

In this paper, the Turing instability in reaction-diffusion models defined on complex networks is studied. Here, we focus on three types of models which generate complex networks, i.e. the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi, the Watts-Strogatz, and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yusuke Ide , Hirofumi Izuhara , Takuya Machida

We study the onset of spatial instabilities in reaction networks where the spatially homogeneous system admits a steady state parameterization. We formulate a sufficient condition -- based on the signs of the constant and leading…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Carsten Conradi , Maya Mincheva , Hannes Uecker

Reaction-diffusion processes on networked systems have received mounting attention in the past two decades, and the corresponding theory of network dynamics has been continuously enriched with the advancement of network science. Recently,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-30 Junyuan Shi , Linhe Zhu

We consider a reaction-diffusion system for two densities lying in adjacent domains of $\mathbb{R}^N$. We treat two configurations: either a cylinder and its complement, or two half-spaces. Diffusion and reaction heterogeneities for the two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Henri Berestycki , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tellini

A class of systems is considered, where immobile species associated to distinct patches, the nodes of a network, interact both locally and at a long-range, as specified by an (interaction) adjacency matrix. Non local interactions are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-30 Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

The advances in understanding complex networks have generated increasing interest in dynamical processes occurring on them. Pattern formation in activator-inhibitor systems has been studied in networks, revealing differences from the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-09 Nikos E. Kouvaris , Shigefumi Hata , Albert Díaz-Guilera

Reaction diffusion systems with Turing instability and mass conservation are studied. In such systems, abrupt decays of stripes follow quasi-stationary states in sequence. At steady state, the distance between stripes is much longer than…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Shuji Ishihara , Mikiya Otsuji , Atsushi Mochizuki

The modelling of linear and nonlinear reaction-subdiffusion processes is more subtle than normal diffusion and causes different phenomena. The resulting equations feature a spatial Laplacian with a temporal memory term through a time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Jichen Yang , Jens D. M. Rademacher

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity are useful models for studying cell polarity formation, which is a key process in cell division and differentiation. We rigorously show the existence and stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Masataka Kuwamura , Takashi Teramoto , Hideo Ikeda

This paper investigates pattern formation in reaction--diffusion systems with both diffusive and nondiffusive components, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for diffusion-driven instability (DDI) and establishing the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Théo André , Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Finn Münnich

The aim of this work is to study the effect of diffusion on the stability of the equilibria in a general two-components reaction-diffusion system with Neumann boundary conditions in the space of continuous functions. As by product, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Francisco J. Vielma-Leal , Miguel A. D. R. Palma , Miguel Montenegro-Concha

Spatiotemporal pattern formations in two-layer coupled reaction-diffusion Lengyel-Epstein system with distributed delayed couplings are investigated. Firstly, for the original decoupled system, it is proved that when the intra-reactor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Qidong Wu , Fengqi Yi

A large variety of real systems are composed by entities in relationships which can be represented by networks. In many of these systems, elements are embedded in the space and location information impacts properties and evolution. Local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-09 Michele Tirico , Stefan Balev , Antoine Dutot , Damien Olivier

Planar wave trains are traveling wave solutions whose wave profiles are periodic in one spatial direction and constant in the transverse direction. In this paper, we investigate the stability of planar wave trains in reaction-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Björn de Rijk , Björn Sandstede