Turing pattern transition induced by cross-diffusion in reaction-diffusion systems

Cross-diffusion and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems.

Cross-diffusion, the phenomenon in which a gradient in the concentration of one species induces a flux of another chemical species, has generally been neglected in the study of reaction-diffusion systems. We summarize experiments that demonstrate that cross-diffusion coefficients can be quite significant, even exceeding "normal," diagonal diffusion coefficients in magnitude in systems that invo...

Cross-diffusion Induced Instability and Stability in Reaction-diffusion Systems

In a reaction-diffusion system, diffusion can induce the instability of a uniform equilibrium which is stable with respect to a constant perturbation, as shown by Turing in 1950s. We show that cross-diffusion can destabilize a uniform equilibrium which is stable for the kinetic and self-diffusion reaction systems; on the other hand, cross-diffusion can also stabilize a uniform equilibrium which...

Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion and reaction-diffusion-convection systems

Pattern formation in spatially heterogeneous Turing reaction–diffusion models

The Turing reaction–diffusion model [Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 237 (1952) 37–72] for self-organised spatial pattern formation has been the subject of a great deal of study for the case of spatially homogeneous parameters. The case of parameters which vary spatially has received less attention. Here, we show that a simple step function heterogeneity in a kinetic parameter can lead to spatial pattern ...

Turing Pattern Formation without Diffusion

The reaction-diffusion mechanism, presented by AM Turing more than 60 years ago, is currently the most popular theoretical model explaining the biological pattern formation including the skin pattern. This theory suggested an unexpected possibility that the skin pattern is a kind of stationary wave (Turing pattern or reaction-diffusion pattern) made by the combination of reaction and diffusion....