Stochastic chemical systems with diffusion are modeled with a reactiondiffusion master equation. On a macroscopic level, the governing equation is a reaction-diffusion equation for the averages of the chemical species. On a mesoscopic level, the master equation for a well stirred chemical system is combined with Brownian motion in space to obtain the reactiondiffusion master equation. The space...

We study traveling fronts of equations of the form u(tt)+phi(u)u(x)=u(xx)+f(u). A criterion for the transition from linear to nonlinear marginal stability is established for positive functions phi(u) and for any reaction term f(u) for which the usual parabolic reaction diffusion equation u(t)=u(xx)+f(u) admits a front. As an application, we treat reaction diffusion systems with transport memory.

The kinetic rate equation for the photosensitized cleavage reaction of surface-bound photolabile chromophores with free diffusion of sensitizer molecules from the bulk of a solution to the surface is derived by determining the stationary solution of a diffusion equation with suitable boundary conditions. The relation between the phenomenological rate constant for the photosensitized reaction at...

We establish the existence and robustness of layered, time-periodic solutions to a reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded domain in Rn, when the diffusion coefficient is sufficiently small and the reaction term is periodic in time and bistable in the state variable. Our results suggest that these patterned, oscillatory solutions are stable and locally unique. The location of the internal laye...

Electroless deposition for fabricating copper Cu interconnects of integrated circuits has drawn attention due to its low processing temperature, high deposition selectivity, and high coverage. In this paper, three-dimensional computer simulations of the qualitative growth properties of Cu particles and two-dimensional simulations of the trench-filling properties are conducted. The mathematical ...

We consider the initial value problem for the reaction-diffusion equation ut = ∆u + f(u). In this paper we show the existence and nonexistence of the global solutions in time. Especially, we extend the condition of the nonlinear terms to more general. We have the results of the existence and the nonexistence for the equation with the nonlinear term f satisfying lim infs→0 f(s)/sp > 0 and lim su...

We study crystallization of chiral crystals from achiral molecules using a master equation based on a simple reaction model. Although there is no chiral symmetry breaking in the reaction model, random fluctuations drive the system to a homochiral state. The time necessary for the appearance of the homochiral state is proportional to the total number of molecules in the system. This behavior is ...

A non-isotropic version of phase equations such as the Burgers equation, the K-dV-Burgers equation, the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and the Benney equation in the three-dimensional space is systematically derived from a general reaction-diffusion system by means of the renormalization group method. PACS codes: 47.20.Ky

The amoeboid organism, the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum, behaves on the basis of spatio-temporal pattern formation by local contraction-oscillators. This biological system can be regarded as a reaction-diffusion system which has spatial interaction by active flow of protoplasmic sol in the cell. Paying attention to the physiological evidence that the flow is determined by contraction pat...

A reaction-diffusion equation with nonlinear boundary condition is considered in a two-dimensional infinite strip. Existence of waves in the bistable case is proved by the Leray-Schauder method. 1. Formulation of the problem. Reaction-diffusion problems with nonlinear boundary conditions arise in various applications. In physiology, such problems describe in particular development of atheroscle...