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We consider in this paper a solvable model for the motion of molecular motors. Based on the averaging principle, we reduce the problem to a diffusion process on a graph. We then calculate the effective speed of transportation of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

We consider solutions of a scalar reaction-diffusion equation of the ignition type with a random, stationary and ergodic reaction rate. We show that solutions of the Cauchy problem spread with a deterministic rate in the long time limit. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-10 James Nolen , Lenya Ryzhik

We consider a stochastically perturbed reaction diffusion equation in a bounded interval, with boundary conditions imposing the two stable phases at the endpoints. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the front separating the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 L. Bertini , S. Brassesco , P. Buttà

The asymptotic wave speed for FKPP type reaction-diffusion equations on a class of infinite random metric trees are considered. We show that a travelling wavefront emerges, provided that the reaction rate is large enough. The wavefront…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Wai-Tong Louis Fan , Wenqing Hu , Grigory Terlov

We investigate stochastic reaction-diffusion equations on finite metric graphs. On each edge in the graph a multiplicative cylindrical Gaussian noise driven reaction-diffusion equation is given. The vertex conditions are the standard…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Eszter Sikolya

We present a short overview of the recent results in the theory of diffusion and wave equations with generalised derivative operators. We give generic examples of such generalised diffusion and wave equations, which include time-fractional,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-05 Trifce Sandev , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

This paper proposes a novel reaction-diffusion system approximation tailored for singular diffusion problems, typified by the fast diffusion equation. While such approximation methods have been successfully applied to degenerate parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Hideki Murakawa , Florian Salin

This paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behaviors of the minimal speed of propagation of pulsating traveling fronts solving the Fisher-KPP reaction-advection-diffusion equation within either a large drift, a mixture of large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Mohammad El Smaily , Stephane Kirsch

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 system under study is a reaction-diffusion equation in a horizontal strip, coupled to a diffusion equation on its upper boundary via an exchange condition of the Robin type. This class of models was introduced by H. Berestycki, L. Rossi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Laurent Dietrich , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

We introduce and study a new class of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems, corresponding to propagating up a reaction rate gradient. We show that these systems have no traditional mean-field limit, as the nature of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

We devise a new geometric approach to study the propagation of disturbance - compactly supported data - in reaction diffusion equations. The method builds a bridge between the propagation of disturbance and of almost planar solutions. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Luca Rossi

The problem of radio wave reflection from an optically thick plane monotonous layer of magnetized plasma is considered at present work. The plasma electron density irregularities are described by spatial spectrum of an arbitrary form. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 N. A. Zabotin , A. G. Bronin

We discuss the front propagation in the $A+B\rightarrow 2A$ reaction under subdiffusion which is described by continuous time random walks with a heavy-tailed power law waiting time probability density function. Using a crossover argument,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 D. Froemberg , H. H. Schmidt-Martens , I. M. Sokolov , F. Sagués

We consider spatially discrete bistable reaction-diffusion equations that admit wave front solutions. Depending on the parameters involved, such wave fronts appear to be pinned or to glide at a certain speed. We study the transition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

In this paper, the unidirectional pulse propagation equation generalized to structured media is derived. A fast modal transform linking the spatio-temporal representation of the field and its modal distribution is presented. This transform…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Béjot

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

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 give a detailed analysis of long range cumulative scattering effects from rough boundaries in waveguides. We assume small random fluctuations of the boundaries and obtain a quantitative statistical description of the wave field. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We study reaction-diffusion systems where diffusion is by jumps whose sizes are distributed exponentially. We first study the Fisher-like problem of propagation of a front into an unstable state, as typified by the A+B $\to$ 2A reaction. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler