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In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion system describing the propagation of flames under the assumption of ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order. It was shown in [3] that this system admits a traveling front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Amanda Matson , Claude-Michel Brauner , Peter V. Gordon

We devote this paper to the issue of existence of pulsating travelling front solutions for spatially periodic heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations in arbitrary dimension, in both bistable and more general multistable frameworks. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Thomas Giletti , Luca Rossi

In this paper, we analyse propagating fronts in the context of hyperbolic theories of dissipative processes. These can be considered as a natural alternative to the more classical parabolic models. Emphasis is given toward the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon G. Plaza , Chiara Simeoni

We analyze the stability and dynamics of bistable planar fronts in multicomponent reaction-diffusion systems on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. Under standard spectral stability assumptions, we establish Lyapunov stability of the front against fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Björn de Rijk , Joris van Winden

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 study the existence and stability of propagating fronts in Meinhardt's multivariable reaction-diffusion model of branching in one spatial dimension. We identify a saddle-node-infinite-period (SNIPER) bifurcation of fronts that leads to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-18 Edgar Knobloch , Arik Yochelis

Using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations we study the propagation of planar fronts in superconductors, which would appear after a quench to zero applied magnetic field. Our numerical solutions show that the fronts propagate at a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. John Di Bartolo , Alan T. Dorsey

We prove existence of transition fronts for a large class of reaction-diffusion equations in one dimension, with inhomogeneous monostable reactions. We construct these as perturbations of corresponding front-like solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Tianyu Tao , Beite Zhu , Andrej Zlatos

The problem of velocity selection of reaction-diffusion fronts has been widely investigated. While the mean field limit results are well known theoretically, there is a lack of analytic progress in those cases in which fluctuations are to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos Escudero

The transition from stick to slip at a dry frictional interface occurs through the breaking of the junctions between the two contacting surfaces. Typically, interactions between the junctions through the bulk lead to rupture fronts…

In this paper, we consider the phenomenon of monostable pulsating fronts for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion-advection systems in periodic media. Recent results have addressed the existence of pulsating fronts and the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Li-Jun Du , Wan-Tong Li , Ming-Zhen Xin

We consider a propagation of exotermic transition front in a discrete conservative oscillatory chain. Adequate description of such fronts is a key point in prediction of important transient phenomena, including phase transitions and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-03 V. V. Smirnov , O. V. Gendelman , L. I. Manevitch

We reassess the "dispersionless transport regime" of Brownian particles in tilted periodic potentials. We show that the particles exhibit normal diffusive motion right after transitioning into the running state dragged by the constant bias…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 I. G. Marchenko , V. Yu. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

We establish the existence of a stable foliation in the vicinity of a traveling front solution for systems of reaction diffusion equations in one space dimension that arise in the study of chemical reactions models and solid fuel…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-07-11 Yuri Latushkin , Roland Schnaubelt , Xinyao Yang

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

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion (MCRD) systems are widely used to model phase separation and pattern formation in cell polarity, biomolecular condensates, and ecological systems. Numerical simulations and formal asymptotic analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Xiaoqing He , Quan-Xing Liu , Dong Ye

We investigate a two-component reaction-diffusion system with a slow-fast structure and spatially varying coefficients $f_1$ and $f_2$ appearing in the slow equation. Under mild boundedness and regularity conditions on $f_1$ and $f_2$ the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 M. Chirilus-Bruckner , L. van Vianen , F. Veerman

We study the propagation of uniformly translating fronts into a linearly unstable state, both analytically and numerically. We introduce a perturbative renormalization group (RG) approach to compute the change in the propagation speed when…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lin-Yuan Chen , Nigel Goldenfeld , Y. Oono

We discuss, at the mean-field level, the asymptotic shape of the reaction fronts in the general nA+mB->C reaction-diffusion processes with initially separated reactants, thus generalizing to arbitrary reaction-order kinetics the work done…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jerome Magnin

We study travelling fronts of equations of the form $u_{tt} + \phi(u) u_x = u_{xx} + f(u)$. A criterion for the transition from linear to nonlinear marginal stability is established for positive functions $\phi(u)$ and for any reaction term…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier