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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…

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We consider a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-Kolmogoroff-Petrovsky-Piscounoff type. We investigate the effect of the interaction between the nonlinear diffusion coefficient and the reaction term on the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Pavel Drabek , Peter Takac

A set of traveling wave solution to convection-reaction-diffusion equation is studied by means of methods of local nonlinear analysis and numerical simulation. It is shown the existence of compactly supported solutions as well as solitary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov

We consider a diffusion model with limit cycle reaction functions, in the presence of convection. We select a set of functions derived from a realistic reaction model: the Schnakenberg equations. This resultant form is unsymmetrical. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 E. H. Flach , S. Schnell , J. Norbury

We consider quasi-stationary (travelling wave type) solutions to a general nonlinear reaction-convection-diffusion equation with arbitrary, autonomous coefficients. The second order nonlinear equation describing one dimensional travelling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 T. Harko , M. K. Mak

We study a family of reaction-diffusion equations that present a doubly nonlinear character given by a combination of the $p$-Laplacian and the porous medium operators. We consider the so-called slow diffusion regime, corresponding to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Yihong Du , Alejandro Garriz , Fernando Quiros

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Ruth E. Baker

We study a reaction-diffusion system of partial differential equations, which can be taken to be a basic model for criminal activity. We show that the assumption of a populations natural tendency towards crime significantly changes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Henri Berestycki , Nancy Rodriguez , Lenya Ryzhik

We investigate the connection between the existence of an explicit travelling wave solution and the travelling wave with minimal speed in a scalar monostable reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Elaine C. M. Crooks , Michael Grinfeld

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

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

The paper is concerned with a singular limit for the bistable traveling wave problem in a very large class of two-species fully nonlinear parabolic systems with competitive reaction terms. Assuming existence of traveling waves and enough…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Léo Girardin , Danielle Hilhorst

In this note, we give constructive upper and lower bounds for the minimal speed of propagation of traveling waves for non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-16 Maitere Aguerrea , Gabriel Valenzuela

We provide a mathematical analysis of a thermo-diffusive combustion model of lean spray flames, for which we prove the existence of travelling waves. In the high activation energy singular limit we show the existence of two distinct…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Pierre Berthonnaud , Komla Domelevo

This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

Traveling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are well-studied for Lipschitz continuous monostable and bistable reaction functions. These special solutions play a key role in mathematical biology and in particular in the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Thomas Giletti , Ho-Youn Kim , Yong-Jung Kim

We consider a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation as a model for a population structured by a space variable and a phenotypical trait. To sustain the possibility of invasion in the case where an underlying principal eigenvalue is negative,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Matthieu Alfaro , Jérôme Coville , Gaël Raoul

A variety of boundary value problems in linear transport theory are expressed as a diffusion equation of the two-way, or forward-backward, type. In such problems boundary data are specified only on part of the boundary, which introduces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Caleb G. Wagner , Richard Beals

In this paper we consider a system of two reaction-diffusion equations that models diffusional-thermal combustion with stepwise ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order 0 < $\alpha$ < 1. We turn the free interface problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Claude-Michel Brauner , Robert Roussarie , Peipei Shang , Linwan Zhang

For a fixed bounded domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ we investigate the asymptotic behaviour for large times of solutions to the $p$-Laplacian diffusion equation posed in a tubular domain \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = \Delta_p u \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez