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The theory of traveling waves and spreading speeds is developed for time-space periodic monotone semiflows with monostable structure. By using traveling waves of the associated Poincar\'e maps in a strong sense, we establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Jian Fang , Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

Mixing at the interface between a convection zone and an adjacent, stably-stratified layer plays a crucial role in shaping the structure and evolution of stars and planets. In this work, we present a suite of 2D and 3D Boussinesq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Bradley W. Hindman , J. R. Fuentes

Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

The dynamic initiation of sliding at planar interfaces between deformable and rigid solids is studied with particular focus on the speed of the slip front. Recent experimental results showed a close relation between this speed and the local…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-22 David S. Kammer , Vladislav A. Yastrebov , Peter Spijker , Jean-François Molinari

The current paper is devoted to the investigation of wave propagation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations with ignition type nonlinearity in time heterogeneous and random media. It is proven that such equations in time heterogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

For scalar reaction-diffusion equations, a traveling wave is a front which transforms a higher energy state to a lower energy state. The same is true for a system of equations with a gradient structure. At the core of this phenomenon, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Chao-Nien Chen , Y. S. Choi

The rupture of dry frictional interfaces occurs through the propagation of fronts breaking the contacts at the interface. Recent experiments have shown that the velocities of these rupture fronts range from quasi-static velocities…

Mixing fronts form when fluids with different chemical compositions are brought into contact. They influence a large range of biogeochemical processes in hydrological systems. An important mechanism governing mixing rates in such fronts is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-13 Gauthier Rousseau , Satoshi Izumoto , Tanguy Le Borgne , Joris Heyman

The propagation of pressure fronts (impact solutions) in 1D chains of atoms coupled by anharmonic potentials between nearest neighbor and submitted to damping forces preserving uniform motion, is investigated. Travelling fronts between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-27 S. Aubry , L. Proville

We propose a novel method for establishing the convergence rates of solutions to reaction-diffusion equations to traveling waves. The analysis is based on the study of the traveling wave shape defect function introduced in [2]. It turns out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik

This paper investigates the propagation phenomena of a monotone bistable reaction-diffusion system in an exterior domain of R2. By constructing suitable sub- and supersolutions, we establish the existence and monotonicity of an entire…

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

In this paper we consider a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion model with piecewise continuous reaction term that describes propagation of autoignition fronts in reactive co-flow jets in a certain parametric regime. The model is reduced to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Mingxin Ma , Peter V. Gordon , Robert Roussarie , Peipei Shang , Claude-Michel Brauner

Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Andreas M. Menzel

This paper is concerned with reaction-diffusion systems of two symmetric species in spatial dimension one, having two stable symmetric equilibria connected by a symmetric standing front. The first order variation of the speed of this front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Emmanuel Risler

Propagation failure (pinning) of traveling waves is studied in a discrete scalar reaction-diffusion equation with a piecewise linear, bistable reaction function. The critical points of the pinning transition, and the wavefront profile at…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Gabor Fath

The diffusion properties of self-propelled particles which move at constant speed and, in addition, reverse their direction of motion repeatedly are investigated. The internal dynamics of particles triggering these reversal processes is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Robert Großmann , Fernando Peruani , Markus Bär

The way particles interact with turbulent structures, particularly in regions of high vorticity and strain rate, has been investigated in simulations of homogeneous turbulence and in simple flows which have a periodic or persistent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-28 Michael W. Reeks

Charged particles in a magnetosphere are spontaneously attracted to a planet while increasing their kinetic energy via inward diffusion process. A constraint on particles' micro-scale adiabatic invariants restricts the class of motions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Y. Ushida , Y. Kawazura , N. Sato , Z. Yoshida

This paper is concerned with the existence and further properties of propagation speeds of transition fronts for bistable reaction-diffusion equations in exterior domains and in some domains with multiple cylindrical branches. In exterior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Hongjun Guo , Francois Hamel , Wei-Jie Sheng

Spin and charge-current dynamics after ultrafast spin-polarized excitation in a normal metal are studied theoretically using a wave-diffusion theory. It is shown analytically how this macroscopic approach correctly describes the ballistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-22 Steffen Kaltenborn , Yao-Hui Zhu , Hans Christian Schneider