Investigating Turing patterns in cancer-immune cells interaction model

Abstract

Pattern formation is very broad in nature, and understanding the causes of its generation has greatly advanced over the past decades. In this paper, we investigate Turing pattern formation in a cancer-immune cells interaction which is spatially distributed. We derived conditions under which Turing patterns emerged due to diffusion-driven instability. Numerical results revealed the formation of isolated groups such as spotted and stripe-like patterns due to the cells interaction. Furthermore, the results have shown that the model exhibited patterns due to cross-diffusion.