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This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the generalized principal eigenvalues of elliptic operators and spreading speeds of Fisher-KPP equations in two-scale almost periodic media where one scale is fixed and another one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Xing Liang , Linfeng Xu , Tao Zhou

This paper is devoted to the study of some qualitative and quantitative aspects of nonlinear propagation phenomena in diffusive media. More precisely, we consider the case a reaction-diffusion equation in a periodic medium with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-27 Francois Hamel , Yannick Sire

We investigate the propagation of chemical fronts arising in Fisher--Kolmogorov--Petrovskii--Piskunov (FKPP) type models in the presence of a steady cellular flow. In the long-time limit, a steadily propagating pulsating front is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexandra Tzella , Jacques Vanneste

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the Fisher-KPP equation in a heterogeneous medium, $$\partial_t u = \partial_{xx} u + f(x,u),$$ associated with a compactly supported initial datum. A typical nonlinearity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Jimmy Garnier , Thomas Giletti , Gregoire Nadin

We consider here a model of accelerating fronts, introduced in [2], consisting of one equation with nonlocal diffusion on a line, coupled via the boundary condition with a reaction-diffusion equation of the Fisher-KPP type in the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Anne-Charline Chalmin , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

We consider reaction-diffusion equations with combustion-type non-linearities in two dimensions and study speed-up of their pulsating fronts by general periodic incompressible flows with a cellular structure. We show that the occurence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Andrej Zlatos

In this paper, we mainly investigate the spreading dynamics of a nonlocal diffusion KPP model with free boundaries which is firstly explored in time almost periodic media. As the spreading occurs, the long-run dynamics are obtained.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Chengcheng Cheng , Rong Yuan

We study the asymptotics of front speeds of the reaction-diffusion equations with Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity and zero mean stationary ergodic Gaussian shear advection on the entire plane. By exploiting connections of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Xin

We consider a multidimensional monostable reaction-diffusion equation whose nonlinearity involves periodic heterogeneity. This serves as a model of invasion for a population facing spatial heterogeneities. As a rescaling parameter tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti

We obtain a criterion for pulsating front speed-up by general periodic incompressible flows in two dimensions and in the presence of KPP nonlinearities. We achieve this by showing that the ratio of the minimal front speed and the effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lenya Ryzhik , Andrej Zlatos

A reaction-diffusion model which is called the field-road model was introduced by Berestycki, Roquejoffre and Rossi [9] to describe biological invasion with fast diffusion on a line. In this paper, we investigate this model in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Mingmin Zhang

In this paper, we investigate spreading properties of the solutions of the Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov-type, (to be simple,KPP-type) lattice system \begin{equation}\label{firstequation}\overset{.}u_{i}(t)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Xing Liang , Tao Zhou

We study the asymptotic speed of traveling fronts of the scalar reaction diffusion for positive reaction terms and with a diffusion coefficient depending nonlinearly on the concentration and on its gradient. We restrict our study to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

We study evolution of pulses propagating through focusing nonlinear media. Small disturbance on the smooth initial non-uniform background leads to formation of the region of strong nonlinear oscillations. We develop here an asymptotic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-14 A. M. Kamchatnov , D. V. Shaykin

We study KPP pulsating front speed-up and effective diffusivity enhancement by general periodic incompressible flows. We prove the existence of and determine the limits $c^*(A)/A$ and $D(A)/A^2$ as $A\to\infty$, where $c^*(A)$ is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-05 Andrej Zlatos

We study front propagation phenomena for a large class of nonlocal KPP-type reaction-diffusion equations in oscillatory environments, which model various forms of population growth with periodic dependence. The nonlocal diffusion is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Andrei Tarfulea

We consider asymptotic problems concerning the motion of interface separating the regions of large and small values of the solution of a reaction-diffusion equation in the media consisting of domains with different characteristics…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

The notion of traveling wave, which typically refers to some particular spatio-temporal con- nections between two stationary states (typically, entire solutions keeping the same profile's shape through time), is essential in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Thomas Giletti

In this paper we investigate the dynamical properties of a spatially periodic reaction-diffusion system {whose reaction terms are of hybrid nature in the sense that they are partly competitive and partly cooperative depending on the value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Quentin Griette , Hiroshi Matano

We consider in this paper a reaction-diffusion system under a KPP hypothesis in a cylindrical domain in the presence of a shear flow. Such systems arise in predator-prey models as well as in combustion models with heat losses. Similarly to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Thomas Giletti