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A mutualist model with nonlocal diffusions and a free boundary is first considered. We prove that this problem has a unique solution defined $t\ge0$, and its dynamics are governed by a spreading-vanishing dichotomy. Some criteria for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Lei Li , Mingxin Wang

This short paper concerns a diffusive logistic equation with the heterogeneous environment and a free boundary, which is formulated to study the spread of an invasive species, where the free boundary represents the expanding front. A…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Mingxin Wang

In this paper we are interested in propagation phenomena for nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations of the type: $\delta_tu = J \times u - u + f (x, u) t \in R^+, x \in R^N$, where J is a probability density and f is a KPP nonlinearity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Jerome Coville , Juan Davila , Salome Martinez

This paper is devoted to the analysis of some uniqueness properties of a classical reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-KPP type, coming from population dynamics in heterogeneous environments. We work in a one-dimensional interval $(a,b)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Lionel Roques , Michel Cristofol

We study a monostable reaction-diffusion equation of the form $u_t=du_{xx}+f(u)$ over a semi-infinite spatial domain $[g(t),\infty)$, with $x=g(t)$ the free boundary whose evolution is governed by equations derived from a ``preferred…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Hongkai Cao , Yihong Du , Wenjie Ni

We consider the nonlinear Stefan problem $$ \left \{ \begin{array} {ll} -d \Delta u=a u-b u^2 \;\; & \mbox{for } x \in \Omega (t), \; t>0, \\ u=0 \mbox{ and } u_t=\mu|\nabla_x u |^2 \;\;&\mbox{for } x \in \partial\Omega (t), \; t>0, \\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Weiwei Ding , Yihong Du , Zongming Guo

Consider the quasilinear diffusion problem \[\begin{cases}\mathbf{u}'+\Pi(t,x,\mathbf{u},\Sigma \mathbf{u})\mathbb{A}\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{f}(t,x,\mathbf{u},\Sigma \mathbf{u})&\text{ in }]0,T[\times\Omega,\\\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{0}&\text{ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Catharine W. K. Lo , José Francisco Rodrigues

We introduce and analyze a nonlocal version of the one-phase Stefan problem in which, as in the classical model, the rate of growth of the volume of the liquid phase is proportional to the rate at which energy is lost through the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Carmen Cortázar , Fernando Quirós , Noemí Wolanski

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

In this paper, we are interested in the properties of solution of the nonlocal equation $$\begin{cases}u_t+(-\Delta)^su=f(u),\quad t>0, \ x\in\mathbb{R}\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}\end{cases}$$ where $0\le u_0<1$ is a Heaviside…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Jérôme Coville , Changfeng Gui , Mingfeng Zhao

We investigate the influence of a shifting environment on the spreading of an invasive species through a model given by the diffusive logistic equation with a free boundary. When the environment is homogeneous and favourable, this model was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Yihong Du , Lei Wei , Ling Zhou

Motivated by the observation that anomalous diffusion is a realistic feature in the dynamics of biological populations, we investigate its implications in a paradigmatic model for the evolution of a single species density $u(x,t)$. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Eduardo H. Colombo , Celia Anteneodo

We study the long time behavior, as $t\to\infty$, of solutions of $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} u_t = u_{xx} + f(u), & x>0, \ t >0,\\ u(0,t) = b u_x(0,t), & t>0,\\ u(x,0) = u_0 (x)\geqslant 0 , & x\geqslant 0, \end{array} \right. $$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Xinfu Chen , Bendong Lou , Maolin Zhou , Thomas Giletti

The current paper is to investigate the numerical approximation of logistic type chemotaxis models in one space dimension with a free boundary. Such a model with a free boundary describes the spreading of a new or invasive species subject…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Lei Yang , Lianzhang Bao

We determine the asymptotic spreading speed of an invasive species, which invades the territory of a native competitor, governed by a diffusive competition model with a free boundary in a spherically symmetric setting. This free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Yihong Du , Mingxin Wang , Maolin Zhou

In the current series of two papers, we study the long time behavior of the following random Fisher-KPP equation $$ u_t =u_{xx}+a(\theta_t\omega)u(1-u),\quad x\in\mathbb{R} $$ where $\omega\in\Omega$, $(\Omega, \mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

We give an integral variational characterization for the speed of fronts of the nonlinear diffusion equation $u_t = u_{xx} + f(u)$ with $f(0)=f(1)=0$, and $f>0$ in $(0,1)$, which permits, in principle, the calculation of the exact speed for…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

This is part II of our study on the free boundary problems with nonlocal and local diffusions. In part I, we obtained the existence, uniqueness, regularity and estimates of global solution. In part II here, we show a spreading-vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Jianping Wang , Mingxin Wang

In this paper, we investigate a Fisher-KPP nonlocal diffusion model incorporating the effect of advection and free boundaries, aiming to explore the propagation dynamics of the nonlocal diffusion-advection model. Considering the effects of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Chengcheng Cheng

We study the transient dynamics of single species reaction diffusion systems whose reaction terms $f(u)$ vary nonlinearly near $u\approx 0$, specifically as $f(u)\approx u^{2}$ and $f(u)\approx u^{3}$. We consider three cases, calculate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Giuggioli , Z. Kalay , V. M. Kenkre