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Motivated by stochastic convection-diffusion problems we derive a posteriori error estimates for non-stationary non-linear convection-diffusion equations acting as a deterministic paradigm. The problem considered here neither fits into the…

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We study the persistence and propagation (or blocking) phenomena for a species in periodically hostile environments. The problem is described by a reaction-diffusion equation with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We first derive the…

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In this paper, we study stochastic homogenization of a coupled diffusion-reaction system. The diffusion-reaction system is coupled to stochastic differential equations, which govern the changes in the media properties. Though homogenization…

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We consider a Poisson equation in $\mathbb R^d$ for the elliptic operator corresponding to an ergodic diffusion process. Optimal regularity and smoothness with respect to the parameter are obtained under mild conditions on the coefficients.…

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We consider the singular limit of a bistable reaction diffusion equation in the case when the velocity of the traveling wave solution depends on the space variable and converges to a discontinuous function. We show that the family of…

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