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We consider an interacting particle system with two species under strong competition dynamics between the two species. Then, through the hydrodynamic limit procedure for the microscopic model, we derive a one-phase Stefan type free boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Kohei Hayashi

We investigate in this paper propagation phenomena for the heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation $\partial_t u -\Delta u = f(t,u)$, $x\in R^N$, $t\in\R$, where f=f(t,u) is a KPP monostable nonlinearity which depends in a general way on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Grégoire Nadin , Luca Rossi

We study the positivity and regularity of solutions to the fractional porous medium equations $u_t+(-\Delta)^su^m=0$ in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$, for $m>1$ and $s\in (0,1)$ and with Dirichlet boundary data $u=0$ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Matteo Bonforte , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

This paper deals with the large time dynamics of bounded solutions of reaction-diffusion equations with unbounded initial support in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We prove a variational formula for the spreading speeds in any direction, and we also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-08 François Hamel , Luca Rossi

We consider the partial differential equation $$ u-f={\rm div}\left(u^m\frac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right) $$ with $f$ nonnegative and bounded and $m\in\mathbb{R}$. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for both the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Lorenzo Giacomelli , Salvador Moll , Francesco Petitta

We study the diffusive logistic equation with a free boundary in timeperiodic environment. To understand the effect of the dispersal rate $d$, the original habitat radius $h_0$, the spreading capability $\mu$, and the initial density $u_0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Qiaoling Chen , Fengquan Li , Feng Wang

From a simple model for the driven motion of a planar interface under the influence of a diffusion field we derive a damped nonlinear oscillator equation for the interface position. Inside an unstable regime, where the damping term is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexander L. Korzhenevskii , Richard Bausch , Rudi Schmitz

The initial boundary value problem for a Cahn-Hilliard system subject to a dynamic boundary condition of Allen-Cahn type is treated. The vanishing of the surface diffusion on the dynamic boundary condition is the point of emphasis. By the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 2$, be a smooth bounded domain. For $s \in (1/2,1)$, we consider a problem of the form \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^s u & = \mu(x)\, \mathbb{D}_s^{2}(u) + \lambda f(x)\,, & \quad \mbox{in}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Boumediene Abdellaoui , Antonio J. Fernández

The first part of this paper is devoted to the derivation of a technical result, related to the stability of the solution of a reaction-diffusion equation $u_t-\Delta u = f(x,u)$ on $(0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R}^N$, where the initial datum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Grégoire Nadin

We present here a semi-analytical solution of the problem of particle acceleration at non-linear shock waves with a free escape boundary at some location upstream. This solution, besides allowing us to determine the spectrum of particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

We consider the one-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation with step-like initial data. Nolen, Roquejoffre, and Ryzhik showed that the solution $u$ converges at long time to a traveling wave $\phi$ at a position $\tilde \sigma(t) = 2t - (3/2)\log…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Cole Graham

Let $n\geq 3$, $0< m<\frac{n-2}{n}$ and $T>0$. We construct positive solutions to the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\Delta u^m$ in $\mathbb{R}^n\times(0,T)$, which vanish at time $T$. By introducing a scaling parameter $\beta$ inspired by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Kin Ming Hui , Soojung Kim

This paper studies the nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation of fractional orders both in space and time variables: \[ \left(\partial^\beta+\frac{\nu}{2}(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}\right)u(t,x) =…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Le Chen , Yaozhong Hu , David Nualart

Spatio-temporal dynamics of the evolution of population involving growth and diffusion processes can be modeled by class of partial diffusion equations (PDEs) known as reaction-diffusion systems. In this work, we developed a nonlinear…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-16 Preet Mishra , Sapna Ratan Shah , R. K. Brojen Singh

In this paper we study a convection-reaction-diffusion equation of the form \begin{equation*} u_t=\varepsilon(h(u)u_x)_x-f(u)_x+f'(u), \quad t>0, \end{equation*} with a nonlinear diffusion in a bounded interval of the real line. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Alessandro Alla , Alessandra De Luca , Raffaele Folino , Marta Strani

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

This paper is concerned with spreading properties of space-time heterogeneous Fisher--KPP equations in one space dimension. We focus on the case of everywhere favorable environment with three different zones, a left half-line with slow or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Thomas Giletti , Léo Girardin , Hiroshi Matano

In this paper we propose the first framework to study Burgers' equation featuring critical fast diffusion in form of $u_t+f(u)_x = (\ln u)_{xx}$. The solution possesses a strong singularity when $u=0$ hence bringing technical challenges.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Xiaowen Li , Jingyu Li , Ming Mei , Jean-Christophe Nave

Reactio-nonlocal diffusion equations model nonlocal transport and anomalous diffusion by replacing the Laplacian with a fractional power, capturing diffusion mechanisms beyond Brownian motion. We primarily study the semilinear problem \[…

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