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We introduce a novel numerical method for direct simulation of front propagation in the Fisher-KPP equation with a time-dependent parameter on an infinite domain. The method computes a time-dependent boundary condition that accurately…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-12 Troy Tsubota , Smridhi Mahajan , Adrian van Kan , Edgar Knobloch

The flow in a Hele-Shaw cell with a time-increasing gap poses a unique shrinking interface problem. When the upper plate of the cell is lifted perpendicularly at a prescribed speed, the exterior less viscous fluid penetrates the interior…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-20 Meng Zhao , Zahra Niroobakhsh , John Lowengrub , Shuwang Li

Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to investigate the dynamic behavior of the slip length in thin polymer films confined between atomically smooth thermal surfaces. For weak wall-fluid interactions, the shear rate dependence of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-21 Anoosheh Niavarani , Nikolai V. Priezjev

In this article, we study the behavior of the Abels-Garcke-Gr\"un Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard diffuse-interface model for binary-fluid flows, as the diffuse-interface thickness passes to zero. We consider this so-called sharp-interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-05 T. H. B. Demont , S. K. F. Stoter , E. H. van Brummelen

We identify the $\Gamma$-limit of a nanoparticle-polymer model as the number of particles goes to infinity and as the size of the particles and the phase transition thickness of the polymer phases approach zero. The limiting energy consists…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Stan Alama , Lia Bronsard , Ihsan Topaloglu

A vectorial Modica--Mortola functional is considered and the convergence to a sharp interface model is studied. The novelty of the paper is that the wells of the potential are not constant, but depend on the spatial position in the domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Riccardo Cristoferi , Giovanni Gravina

In the current series of two papers, we study the long time behavior of the following random Fisher-KPP equation $$ u_t =u_{xx}+a(\theta_t\omega)u(1-u),\quad x\in\mathbb{R} $$ where $\omega\in\Omega$, $(\Omega, \mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

We study the long time behavior of solutions of periodic Fisher-KPP type equations in $\mathbb{R}^n$ that arise from compactly supported initial data. We prove that propagation along a fixed direction $e\in\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ is completely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Beniada Shabani

We study the Cauchy problem in the hyperbolic space for the heat equation with a Fisher-KPP type forcing term. Depending on the relative strength of diffusion, measured by the infimum of the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 María del Mar González , Irene Gonzálvez , Fernando Quirós

In this paper, the compressible immiscible two-phase flow with relaxation is investigated, this model can be regarded as a natural modification of Jin-Xin relaxation scheme proposed and developed by S.Jin and Z.P.Xin([Comm.Pure Appl.Math.,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Yazhou Chen , Yi Peng , Qiaolin He , Xiaoding Shi

We study a non-linear and non-local evolution equation for curves obtained as the sharp interface limit of a phase-field model for crawling motion of eukaryotic cells on a substrate. We establish uniqueness of solutions to the sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Matthew S. Mizuhara , Peng Zhang

An unbounded one-dimensional solid-on-solid model with integer heights is studied. Unbounded here means that there is no a priori restrictions on the discret e gradient of the interface. The interaction Hamiltonian of the interface is given…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-11 Gustavo Posta

Physically consistent coupling conditions at the fluid-porous interface with correctly determined effective parameters are necessary for accurate modeling and simulation of various applications. To describe single-fluid-phase flows in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-25 Paula Strohbeck , Elissa Eggenweiler , Iryna Rybak

The dynamics of a driven interface in a medium with random pinning forces is analyzed. The interface undergoes a depinning transition where the order parameter is the interface velocity $v$, which increases as $v \sim (F-F_c)^\theta$ for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Heiko Leschhorn , Thomas Nattermann , Semjon Stepanow , Lei-Han Tang

We consider the large time behaviour of solutions to the porous medium equation with a Fisher-KPP type reaction term and nonnegative, compactly supported initial function in $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N)\setminus\{0\}$: \begin{equation}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Yihong Du , Fernando Quiros , Maolin Zhou

An implicit Euler discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (Fisher-KPP) equation for population densities with no-flux boundary conditions is suggested and analyzed. Using an exponential variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Francesca Bonizzoni , Marcel Braukhoff , Ansgar Jüngel , Ilaria Perugia

We consider the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with additive noise term $\varepsilon^\gamma g\, \dot{W}$ ($\gamma >0$) that scales with the interfacial width parameter $\varepsilon$. We verify strong error estimates for a gradient flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Dimitra Antonopoulou , Lubomir Banas , Robert Nürnberg , Andreas Prohl

This paper focuses on propagation phenomena in reaction-diffusion equations with a weaklymonostable nonlinearity. The reaction term can be seen as an intermediate between the classicallogistic one (or Fisher-KPP) and the standard weak Allee…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville , Xi Zhang

The topic of this paper is a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space ($3\leq p<5$) whose initial data are radial and come with a finite energy. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Ruipeng Shen

We consider the Landau-Coulomb equation for initial data with bounded mass, finite numbers of moments, and entropy. We show the existence of a global weak solution that has bounded Fisher information for positive times. This solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Laurent Desvillettes , William Golding , Maria Pia Gualdani , Amelie Loher