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A nonlinear PDE featuring flux limitation effects together with those of the porous media equation (nonlinear Fokker-Planck) is presented in this paper. We analyze the balance of such diverse effects through the study of the existence and…

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The role of thermodiffusive generation of concentration fluctuations via the Soret effect, their contribution to the buoyancy forces that drive convection, the advective mixing effect of the latter, and the diffusive homogenisation are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Jung , P. Matura , M. Luecke

Transport processes underpin a multitude of phenomena, ranging from the propagation of atoms on lattices, to the mobility patterns of microorganisms and earthquakes, to name a few. The dynamics of these processes is very rich and key to…

The stochastic dynamics of tracers arising from hydrodynamic fluctuations in a driven electrolyte is studied using a self-consistent field-theory framework in all dimensions. A plethora of scaling behaviour that includes two distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-12 Ramin Golestanian

Spiral waves are self-repeating waves that can form in excitable media, propagating outward from their center in a spiral pattern. Spiral waves have been observed in different natural phenomena and have been linked to medical conditions…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-08-11 Vincent Vangelista , Karl Amjad-Ali , Minhyeok Kwon , Paulo H. Acioli

Solitons, defined as nonlinear waves which can reflect from boundaries or transmit through each other, are found in conservative, fully integrable systems. Similar phenomena, dubbed quasi-solitons, have been observed also in dissipative,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-08 V. N. Biktashev , M. A. Tsyganov

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

Depending on their mechanism of self-propulsion, active particles can exhibit a time-dependent, often periodic, propulsion velocity. The precise propulsion velocity profile determines their mean square displacement and their effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-06 Arnau Jurado Romero , Carles Calero , Rossend Rey

Reaction dynamics involving subdiffusive species is an interesting topic with only few known results, especially when the motion of different species is characterized by different anomalous diffusion exponents. Here we study the reaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. B. Yuste , Katja Lindenberg

We show that the combined action of diffraction and convection (walk-off) in wave mixing processes leads to a nonlinear-symmetry-breaking in the generated traveling waves. The dynamics near to threshold is reduced to a Ginzburg-Landau…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberta Zambrini , Maxi San Miguel , Celine Durniak , Majid Taki

We explore the non-equilibrium dynamics of non-interacting classical particles in a one-dimensional driven superlattice which is composed of domains exposed to different time-dependent forces. It is shown how the combination of directed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-29 Thomas Wulf , Christoph Petri , Benno Liebchen , Peter Schmelcher

We study a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system which describes an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction involving both a quadratic (A + B -> 2B) and a cubic (A + 2B -> 3B) autocatalysis. The parameters of this system are the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephane Focant , Thierry Gallay

Current models of phoretic transport rely on molecular forces creating a "diffuse" particle-fluid interface. We investigate theoretically an alternative mechanism, in which a diffuse interface emerges solely due to a non-vanishing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-01 Alvaro Domínguez , M. N. Popescu , C. M. Rohwer , S. Dietrich

We consider a discrete time particle model for kinetic transport on the two dimensional integer lattice. The particle can move due to advection in the $x$-direction and due to dispersion. This happens when the particle is free, but it can…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Michel Dekking , Derong Kong , Annegreet van Opbroek

The analytical theory of diffusive cosmic ray acceleration at parallel stationary shock waves with magnetostatic turbulence is generalized to arbitrary shock speeds $V_s=\beta_1c$, including in particular relativistic speeds. This is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Reinhard Schlickeiser

We discuss the problem of breaking of a nonlinear wave in the process of its propagation into a medium at rest. It is supposed that the profile of the wave is described at the breaking moment by the function $(-x)^{1/n}$ ($x<0$, positive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-02-20 A. M. Kamchatnov

Over the past few years the displacement statistics of self-propelled particles has been intensely studied, revealing their long-time diffusive behavior. Here, we demonstrate that a concerted combination of boundary conditions and switching…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-29 Andreas M. Menzel

The interaction of localised solitary waves with large-scale, time-varying dispersive mean flows subject to nonconvex flux is studied in the framework of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation, a canonical model for nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Kiera van der Sande , Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer

A second order nonlinear equation with variable coefficients has been derived to govern the dynamics of high frequency electrostatic drift waves in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma in a moving frame of (2 + 1) spatio-temporal dimensions.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Siba Prasad Acharya

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye