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Analysis and numerics of traveling waves for asymmetric fractional reaction-diffusion equations

Numerical Analysis 2017-02-28 v1 Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up to translations) and stability of a traveling wave solution connecting two stable homogeneous steady states. Moreover, we review numerical methods for the case of reaction-diffusion equations with fractional Laplacian and discuss possible extensions to our reaction-diffusion equations with Riesz-Feller operators. In particular, we present a direct method using integral operator discretization in combination with projection boundary conditions to visualize our analytical results about traveling waves.

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@article{arxiv.1405.5779,
  title  = {Analysis and numerics of traveling waves for asymmetric fractional reaction-diffusion equations},
  author = {Franz Achleitner and Christian Kuehn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5779},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages; 4 figures; the paper provides an overview and the numerical simulation component / visualization of the analytical results in arXiv:1312.6304