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Turing instabilities for a two species reaction-diffusion systems is studied under anisotropic diffusion. More specifically, the diffusion constants which characterize the ability of the species to relocate in space are direction sensitive.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Daniel M. Busiello , Gwendoline Planchon , Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

Turing patterns are a central paradigm for describing spatial patterns in nature. The corresponding theory of reaction-diffusion dynamics combines ideal diffusion with nonlinear reactions, resulting in patterns when species diffuse at…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker

Reaction-diffusion processes across layered media arise in several scientific domains such as pattern-forming E. coli on agar substrates, epidermal-mesenchymal coupling in development, and symmetry-breaking in cell polarisation. We develop…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-18 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Jacob Halatek , Paul K. Grant , Thomas E. Woolley , Neil Dalchau , Eamonn A. Gaffney

Diffusion-driven instability is a fundamental mechanism underlying pattern formation in spatially extended systems. In almost all existing works, diffusion across the links of the underlying network is modeled through scalar weights,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Gallo , Wilfried Segnou , Timoteo Carletti

Reaction-diffusion systems may lead to the formation of steady state heterogeneous spatial patterns, known as Turing patterns. Their mathematical formulation is important for the study of pattern formation in general and play central roles…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-05 Lucas D. Fernandes , Marcus A. M. Aguiar

Turing patterns formed by activator-inhibitor systems on networks are considered. The linear stability analysis shows that the Turing instability generally occurs when the inhibitor diffuses sufficiently faster than the activator. Numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-29 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-02 Joseph D. Challenger , Raffaella Burioni , Duccio Fanelli

Analytically tracking patterns emerging from a small amplitude Turing instability to large amplitude remains a challenge as no general theory exists. In this paper, we consider a three component reaction-diffusion system with one of its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Christopher Brown , Gianne Derks , Peter van Heijster , David J. B. Lloyd

Patterns are ubiquitous in nature, but how they form is often unclear. Turing developed a seminal theory to explain patterns based on reactions that counteract the equalizing tendency of diffusion. These reactions require continuous energy…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker

We performed an extensive numerical study of a two-dimensional reaction-diffusion system of the activator-inhibitor type in which domain patterns can form. We showed that both multidomain and labyrinthine patterns may form spontaneously as…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-09-08 C. B. Muratov , V. V. Osipov

Alan Turing's work in Morphogenesis has received wide attention during the past 60 years. The central idea behind his theory is that two chemically interacting diffusible substances are able to generate stable spatial patterns, provided…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-29 Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago , Pablo Padilla

We consider here the morphogenesis (pattern formation) problem for some genetic network models. First, we show that any given spatio-temporal pattern can be generated by a genetic network involving a sufficiently large number of genes.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Genieys , S. Vakulenko

In this article we propose a unified framework in order to study reaction-diffusion systems containing self- and cross-diffusion using a free energy approach. This framework naturally leads to the formulation of an energy law, and to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Benjamin Aymard

We study Turing pattern formation in a system undergoing radial growth in two dimensions. The Lengyel-Epstein two variable model is implemented in COMSOL Multiphysics and solved on domains growing at different speeds while sweeping other…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-10 Noah H. Somberg , Christopher Konow , Irving R. Epstein , Milos Dolnik

This paper is concerned with stochastic reaction-diffusion kinetics governed by the reaction-diffusion master equation. Specifically, the primary goal of this paper is to provide a mechanistic basis of Turing pattern formation that is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-23 Yutaka Hori , Shinji Hara

The theory of patterns formation for a reaction-diffusion system defined on a multiplex is developed by means of a perturbative approach. The intra-layer diffusion constants act as small parameter in the expansion and the unperturbed state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Malbor Asllani , Daniel M. Busiello , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Gwendoline Planchon

We study general linear transport-reaction systems on an arbitrary dimensional hypercube with periodic boundary conditions. Transport-reaction systems are often used to model the finite speed movement and interaction of particles, bacteria…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Benedikt Geiger

We explore a mechanism of pattern formation arising in processes described by a system of a single reaction-diffusion equation coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise from the modeling of interactions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Steffen Härting , Anna Marciniak-Czochra

Nature is a blossoming of regular structures, signature of self-organization of the underlying microscopic interacting agents. Turing theory of pattern formation is one of the most studied mechanisms to address such phenomena and has been…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Lorenzo Giambagli , Hiroya Nakao , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti