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We study the effect of a cut-off on the speed of pulled fronts of the one dimensional reaction diffusion equation. We prove rigorous upper and lower bounds on the speed in terms of the cut-off parameter epsilon. From these bounds we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-18 Rafael D. Benguria , M. Cristina Depassier , Michael Loss

This paper is concerned with reaction-diffusion-advection equations in spatially periodic media. Under an assumption of weak stability of the constant states 0 and 1, and of existence of pulsating traveling fronts connecting them, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hongjun Guo , François Hamel , Luca Rossi

Reaction-diffusion processes in two-dimensional percolating structures are investigated. Two different problems are addressed: reaction spreading on a percolating cluster and front propagation through a percolating channel. For reaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-01 Federico Bianco , Sergio Chibbaro , Davide Vergni , Angelo Vulpiani

Reaction-diffusion equations describe various spatially extended processes that unfold as traveling fronts moving at constant velocity. We introduce and solve analytically a model that, besides such fronts, supports solutions advancing as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Louis Brezin , Kyle J. Shaffer , Kirill S. Korolev

We consider the reaction diffusion problem and present efficient ways to discretize and precondition in the singular perturbed case when the reaction term dominates the equation. Using the concepts of optimal test norm and saddle point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Constantin Bacuta , Daniel Hayes , Jacob Jacavage

We study theoretically and numerically the steady state diffusion controlled reaction $A+B\rightarrow\emptyset$, where currents $J$ of $A$ and $B$ particles are applied at opposite boundaries. For a reaction rate $\lambda$, and equal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. T. Barkema , M. J. Howard , J. L. Cardy

This paper deals with the solution of unified fractional reaction-diffusion systems. The results are obtained in compact and elegant forms in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions and generalized Mittag-Leffler functions, which are suitable for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-09-11 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

We study the change in the speed of pushed and bistable fronts of the reaction diffusion equation in the presence of a small cut-off. We give explicit formulas for the shift in the speed for arbitrary reaction terms f(u). The dependence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-18 M. C. Depassier , R. D. Benguria

A uniform solidification front undergoes non-trivial deformations when encountering an insoluble dispersed particle in a melt. For solid particles, the overall deformation characteristics are primarily dictated by heat transfer between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-01 Duco van Buuren , Pallav Kant , Jochem G. Meijer , Christian Diddens , Detlef Lohse

We establish two integral variational principles for the spreading speed of the one dimensional reaction diffusion equation with Stefan boundary conditions. The first principle is valid for monostable reaction terms and the second principle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

We consider a general form of reaction-dispersion equations with non-local dispersal and local reaction. Under some general conditions, we prove the non-existence of transition fronts, as well as some stretching properties at large time for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Jimmy Garnier , François Hamel , Lionel Roques

We consider asymptotic problems concerning the motion of interface separating the regions of large and small values of the solution of a reaction-diffusion equation in the media consisting of domains with different characteristics…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

Problems involving the capture of a moving entity by a trap occur in a variety of physical situations, the moving entity being an electron, an excitation, an atom, a molecule, a biological object such as a receptor cluster, a cell, or even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Spendier , S. Sugaya , V. M. Kenkre

We consider a reaction-diffusion system where some components react and diffuse on the boundary of a region, while other components diffuse in the interior and react with those on the boundary through mass transport. We establish local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-20 Vandana Sharma , Jeff Morgan

Reaction-diffusion problems are often described at a macroscopic scale by partial derivative equations of the type of the Fisher or Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equation. These equations have a continuous family of front solutions, each…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

We study invasion fronts and spreading speeds in two component reaction-diffusion systems. Using a variation of Lin's method, we construct traveling front solutions and show the existence of a bifurcation to locked fronts where both…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-04 Gregory Faye , Matt Holzer

We study the asymptotic speed of traveling fronts of the scalar reaction diffusion for positive reaction terms and with a diffusion coefficient depending nonlinearly on the concentration and on its gradient. We restrict our study to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

We investigate numerically the blocking of two-dimensional bistable reaction diffusion fronts by geometric obstacles. Our goal is to derive quantitative criteria for front propagation in the presence of spatial heterogeneities. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , J. Gatlik , B. Sarels

We study the planar front solution for a class of reaction diffusion equations in multidimensional space in the case when the essential spectrum of the linearization in the direction of the front touches the imaginary axis. At the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Anna Ghazaryan , Yuri Latushkin , Xinyao Yang

We describe the accelerated propagation wave arising from a non-local reaction-diffusion equation. This equation originates from an ecological problem, where accelerated biological invasions have been documented. The analysis is based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Nathanaël Berestycki , Clément Mouhot , Gaël Raoul