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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Alejandro Gárriz

This paper is devoted to the study of travelling fronts of reaction-diffusion equations with periodic advection in the whole plane $\mathbb R^2$. We are interested in curved fronts satisfying some "conical" conditions at infinity. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Mohammad El Smaily , Francois Hamel , Rui Huang

This paper is concerned with the existence and further properties of propagation speeds of transition fronts for bistable reaction-diffusion equations in exterior domains and in some domains with multiple cylindrical branches. In exterior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Hongjun Guo , Francois Hamel , Wei-Jie Sheng

We study transition fronts for one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with compactly perturbed ignition-monostable reactions. We establish an almost sharp condition on reactions which characterizes the existence and non-existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Cole Graham , Tau Shean Lim , Andrew Ma , David Weber

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a traveling front and of its speed for the homogeneous heat equation in the half-plane with a Neumann boundary reaction term of non-balanced bistable type or of combustion type. We also establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Xavier Cabre , Neus Consul , Jose V. Mande

We prove the existence of a traveling wave solution for a boundary reaction diffusion equation when the reaction term is the combustion nonlinearity with ignition temperature. A key role in the proof is plaid by an explicit formula for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-25 L. Caffarelli , A. Mellet , Y. Sire

We prove that the steady state of a class of multidimensional reaction-diffusion systems is asymptotically stable at the intersection of unweighted space and exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces, and pay particular attention to a special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Qingxia Li , Xinyao Yang

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

We construct entire solutions of bistable reaction-diffusion equations by mixing finite planar fronts, which form a finite-dimensional manifold. These entire solutions are generalized traveling fronts, that is, transition fronts. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Hongjun Guo , Kelei Wang

We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for a general Fisher-Burgers equation with nonlinear and possibly density-dependent diffusion. Such a model arises, for instance, in physical phenomena where a saturation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Maurizion Garrione , Marta Strani

We prove the existence and uniqueness, up to a shift in time, of curved traveling fronts for a reaction-advection-diffusion equation with a combustion-type nonlinearity. The advection is through a shear flow $q$. This analyzes, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Mohammad El Smaily

This paper is concerned with curved fronts of combustion reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $(N\geq2)$. Under the assumption that there are moving pulsating fronts for any given propagation direction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Wei-Jie Sheng , Xin-Tian Zhang

We analyze experimentally chemical waves propagation in the disordered flow field of a porous medium. The reaction fronts travel at a constant velocity which drastically depends on the mean flow direction and rate. The fronts may propagate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-11 Severine Atis , Sandeep Saha , Harold Auradou , Dominique Salin , Laurent Talon

This paper is concerned with the interaction between a planar traveling front and a compact obstacle for monotone bistable reaction-diffusion systems in exterior domains. By constructing appropriate sub- and supersolutions, we first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng

This paper is concerned with the propagating speeds of transition fronts in $R^N$ for spatially periodic bistable reaction-diffusion equations. The notion of transition fronts generalizes the standard notions of traveling fronts. Under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Hongjun Guo

We prove the existence of a continuous family of positive and generally non-monotone travelling fronts in delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*)$, when $g \in C^2(R_+,R_+)$ has exactly two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

We consider the propagation of a flame front in a solid periodic medium. The model is governed by a free boundary system in which the front's velocity depends on the temperature via a kinetic rate which may degenerate. We show the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Nathaël Alibaud , Gawtum Namah

We study the existence and uniqueness of wavefronts to the scalar reaction-diffusion equations $u_{t}(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x) - u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)),$ with monotone delayed reaction term $g: \R_+ \to \R_+$ and $h >0$. We are mostly interested…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Elena Trofimchuk , Manuel Pinto , Sergei Trofimchuk

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

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