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This paper is devoted to study the wave propagation and its stability for a class of two-component discrete diffusive systems. We first establish the existence of positive monotone monostable traveling wave fronts. Then, applying the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhixian Yu , Yuji Wan , Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

We investigate in this paper propagation phenomena for the heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation $\partial_t u -\Delta u = f(t,u)$, $x\in R^N$, $t\in\R$, where f=f(t,u) is a KPP monostable nonlinearity which depends in a general way on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Grégoire Nadin , Luca Rossi

We consider a scalar parabolic equation in one spatial dimension. The equation is constituted by a convective term, a reaction term with one or two equilibria, and a positive diffusivity which can however vanish. We prove the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

A generalisation of reaction diffusion systems and their travelling solutions to cases when the productive part of the reaction happens only on a surface in space or on a line on plane but the degradation and the diffusion happen in bulk…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Anton S. Zadorin

We study linear stability of planar travelling waves for a scalar reaction-diffusion equation with non-linear anisotropic diffusion. The mathematical model is derived from the full thermo-hydrodynamical model describing the process of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Léonard Monsaingeon

This paper presents results on the unboundedness and minimal speed of traveling wave solutions for a one-dimensional spatial reaction-diffusion equation with an asymptotically linear reaction term and a saturation parameter. By applying a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yu Ichida

In this paper, the one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with the fractional derivative of order $1 \le \alpha \le 2$ is revisited. This equation interpolates between the diffusion and the wave equations that behave quite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Yuri Luchko , Francesco Mainardi , Yuriy Povstenko

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves of delayed reaction-diffusion systems where the reaction function possesses the mixed quasimonotonicity property. By the so-called monotone iteration scheme and Schauder's fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-21 Canrong Tian , Zhigui Lin

The theory of traveling waves and spreading speeds is developed for time-space periodic monotone semiflows with monostable structure. By using traveling waves of the associated Poincar\'e maps in a strong sense, we establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Jian Fang , Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We derive from first principles a one-way radiative transfer equation for the wave intensity resolved over directions (Wigner transform of the wave field) in random media. It is an initial value problem with excitation from a source which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We study multiplicity of the supercritical traveling front solutions for scalar reaction-diffusion equations in infinite cylinders which invade a linearly unstable equilibrium. These equations are known to possess traveling wave solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-24 P. V. Gordon , C. B. Muratov , M. Novaga

We investigate numerically a model consisting in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of bacteria following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two reaction-diffusion equations for chemical signals. This model exhibits asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Vincent Calvez , Laurent Gosse , Monika Twarogowska

We establish the local well-posedness for a new nonlinearly dispersive wave equation and we show that the equation has solutions that exist for indefinite times as well as solutions which blowup in finite times. Furthermore, we derive an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Zhaoyang Yin

We study the long time behavior of solutions of the Cauchy problem for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations in one space dimension with the nonlinearity of bistable, ignition or monostable type. We prove a one-to-one relation between the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-24 C. B. Muratov , X. Zhong

We consider a multidimensional reaction-diffusion equation of either ignition or monostable type, involving periodic heterogeneity, and analyze the dependence of the propagation phenomena on the direction. We prove that the (minimal) speed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti

This paper deals with front propagation dynamics of monostable equations with nonlocal dispersal in spatially periodic habitats. In the authors' earlier works, it is shown that a general spatially periodic monostable equation with nonlocal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Wenxian Shen , Aijun Zhang

We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive travelling wave solutions for multi-dimensional autonomous reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. To prove the existence of travelling waves, we give an abstract…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

In this paper, we extend and complement previous works about propagation in kinetic reaction-transport equations. The model we study describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating according to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Emeric Bouin , Nils Caillerie