Traveling waves of a reaction-diffusion system with partially coupled diffusion
Analysis of PDEs
2026-07-21 v1
Abstract
This work is devoted to the study of traveling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion systems, where the diffusion rate of~, the second component, depends on~, the first component. Such systems arise in prey-predator models, where the predator~ is actively hunting its prey~, or in epidemiological models where the disease induces erratic behavior, for example rabies. This results in a quasilinear coupling in the highest-order term of the equation for~. From the theoretical point of view, we fully classify traveling wave solutions when the first component does not diffuse, in which case the problem can be reduced to a nonlinear scalar equation. The case where both components diffuse is investigated numerically.
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@article{arxiv.2607.19052,
title = {Traveling waves of a reaction-diffusion system with partially coupled diffusion},
author = {Thomas Giletti and Hirofumi Izuhara and Harunori Monobe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.19052},
year = {2026}
}