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Perturbative Linearization of Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We develop perturbative expansions to obtain solutions for the initial-value problems of two important reaction-diffusion systems, viz., the Fisher equation and the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equation. The starting point of our expansion is the corresponding singular-perturbation solution. This approach transforms the solution of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations into the solution of a hierarchy of linear equations. Our numerical results demonstrate that this hierarchy rapidly converges to the exact solution.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0209524,
  title  = {Perturbative Linearization of Reaction-Diffusion Equations},
  author = {Sanjay Puri and Kay Joerg Wiese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0209524},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures, latex2e