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For certain values of the wave speed parameter, evolution equations for the temperature of a region of fuel admit traveling wave solutions describing fire fronts. We consider such a system in the form of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Olivia Chandrasekhar , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Blake Barker , Rodman Linn

We study the interfaces' time evolution in one-dimensional bistable extended dynamical systems with discrete time. The dynamics is governed by the competition between a local piece-wise affine bistable mapping and any couplings given by the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Coutinho , B. Fernandez

This paper is devoted to reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities depending periodically on time. These equations admit two linearly stable states. However, the reaction terms may not be bistable at every time. These may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Benjamin Contri

Recent studies have shown that in the presence of noise both fronts propagating into a metastable state and so-called pushed fronts propagating into an unstable state, exhibit diffusive wandering about the average position. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrea Rocco , Jaume Casademunt , Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

We investigate the pushed-to-pulled transition for a minimal model for invasive fronts influence by ``aerotaxis,'' that is, when organisms follow oxygen gradients. We consider two singular reaction-advection-diffusion models for this. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Mete Demircigil , Christopher Henderson

In this paper, we first focus on the speed selection problem for the reaction-diffusion equation of the monostable type. By investigating the decay rates of the minimal traveling wave front, we propose a sufficient and necessary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Chang-Hong Wu , Dongyuan Xiao , Maolin Zhou

This paper is concerned with the interaction between a planar traveling front and a compact obstacle for monotone bistable reaction-diffusion systems in exterior domains. By constructing appropriate sub- and supersolutions, we first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng

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

A study of a stable front propagating in a turbulent medium is presented. The front is generated through a reaction-diffusion equation, and the turbulent medium is statistically modeled using a Langevin equation. Numerical simulations…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 A. C. Marti , F. Sagues , J. M. Sancho

We consider the propagation of fronts in a periodically driven flowing medium. It is shown that the progress of fronts in these systems may be mediated by a turnstile mechanism akin to that found in chaotic advection. We first define the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 John R. Mahoney , Kevin A. Mitchell

We establish selection of critical pulled fronts in invasion processes. Our result shows convergence to a pulled front with a logarithmic shift for open sets of steep initial data, including one-sided compactly supported initial conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Montie Avery , Arnd Scheel

This paper is concerned with curved fronts of bistable reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media for dimensions $N\geq 2$. The curved fronts concerned are transition fronts connecting $0$ and $1$. Under a priori assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Hongjun Guo , Haijian Wang

We consider an exclusion process representing a reactive dynamics of a pulled front on the integer lattice, describing the dynamics of first class $X$ particles moving as a simple symmetric exclusion process, and static second class $Y$…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Milton Jara , Gregorio Moreno , Alejandro F. Ramirez

This is a study of front dynamics in reaction diffusion systems near Nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch bifurcations. We find that the relation between front velocity and perturbative factors, such as external fields and curvature, is typically…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Christian Elphick , Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

We report experiments investigating jamming fronts in a floating layer of cornstarch suspension. The suspension has a packing fraction close to jamming, which dynamically turns into a solid when impacted at a high speed. We show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-04 Ivo R. Peters , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We investigate the dynamics of an intruder pulled by a constant force in a dense two-dimensional granular fluid by means of event-driven molecular dynamics simulations. In a first step, we show how a propagating momentum front develops and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-29 Andrea Fiege , Matthias Grob , Annette Zippelius

Long, cylindrical metal nanowires have recently been observed to form and be stable for seconds at a time at room temperature. Their stability and structural dynamics is well described by a continuum model, the nanoscale free-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Bürki

The interface separating a liquid from its vapor phase is diffuse: the composition varies continuously from one phase to the other over a finite length. Recent experiments on dynamic jamming fronts in two dimensions [Waitukaitis et al.,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Jikai Wang , J. M. Schwarz , Joseph D. Paulsen

Streamer ionization fronts are pulled fronts propagating into a linearly unstable state; the spatial decay of the initial condition of a planar front selects dynamically one specific long time attractor out of a continuous family. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Gianne Derks , Ute Ebert , Bernard Meulenbroek