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We consider in this paper a reaction-diffusion system in presence of a flow and under a KPP hypothesis. While the case of a single-equation has been extensively studied since the pioneering Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piskunov paper, the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Thomas Giletti

Reaction-diffusion equations (RDEs) are often derived as continuum limits of lattice-based discrete models. Recently, a discrete model which allows the rates of movement, proliferation and death to depend upon whether the agents are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Matthew J. Simpson , Martin Wechselberger

A one species time-delay reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex networks is studied. Travelling waves are predicted to occur as follows a symmetry breaking instability of an homogenous stationary stable solution, subject to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Julien Petit , Timoteo Carletti , Mabor Asslani , Duccio Fanelli

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-03 J. Calvo , J. Campos , V. Caselles , O. Sánchez , J. Soler

This paper is concerned with a model for the dynamics of a single species in a one-dimensional heterogeneous environment. The environment consists of two kinds of patches, which are periodically alternately arranged along the spatial axis.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-04 François Hamel , Frithjof Lutscher , Mingmin Zhang

We investigate traveling wave solutions for a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations characterized by double degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t= -f(n,b), \quad b_t=[g(n)h(b)b_x]_x+f(n,b).\] These systems mainly appear in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Eduardo Muñoz-Hernández , Elisa Sovrano , Valentina Taddei

This paper deals with the existence, monotonicity, uniqueness and asymptotic behaviour of travelling wavefronts for a class of temporally delayed, spatially nonlocal diffusion equations.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Shangjiang Guo , Johannes Zimmer

The present paper is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions of the asymptotic model, derived by the authors in a previous work, to approximate the unidirectional evolution of a collision-free plasma in a magnetic field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Diego Alonso-Orán , Angel Durán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

Analysis of the speed of propagation in parabolic operators is frequently carried out considering the minimal speed at which its traveling waves move. This value depends on the solution concept being considered. We analyze an extensive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Margarita Arias , Juan Campos

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

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

We consider Kolmogorov--Petrovskii--Piscounov (KPP) type models in the presence of a discontinuous cut-off in reaction rate at concentration $u=u_c$. In Part I we examine permanent form travelling wave solutions (a companion paper, Part II,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-07 A D O Tisbury , D J Needham , A Tzella

We consider the wave propagation for a reaction-diffusion equation on the real line, with a random drift and Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) type nonlinear reaction. We show that when the average drift is positive, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dihang Guan , Hui He , Wenqing Hu , Jiaojiao Yang

We rigorously prove the existence of traveling fronts in neural field models with lateral inhibition coupling types and smooth sigmoidal firing rates. With Heaviside firing rates as our base point (where unique traveling fronts exist), we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Alan Dyson

We investigate spreading properties of solutions of a large class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems, including prey-predator systems as a special case. By spreading properties we mean the long time behaviour of solution fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications in biology and chemistry. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

We consider the Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation in the whole space. We prove that if a solution has, to main order and for all times (positive and negative), the same exponential decay as a planar traveling wave with speed larger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Christos Sourdis

In this study, we investigate a porous medium-type flux limited reaction--diffusion equation that arises in morphogenesis modeling. This nonlinear partial differential equation is an extension of the generalized…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Waipot Ngamsaad , Suthep Suantai

The existence of travelling waves for a model of concentration waves of bacteria is investigated. The model consists in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of cells following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Vincent Calvez

We extend the class of initial conditions for scalar delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t (t,x)=u_{xx}(t,x)+f(u(t, x), u(t-h, x))$ which evolve in solutions converging to monostable traveling waves. Our approach allows to compute, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Abraham Solar , Sergei Trofimchuk