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We prove the existence of a traveling wave solution for a boundary reaction diffusion equation when the reaction term is the combustion nonlinearity with ignition temperature. A key role in the proof is plaid by an explicit formula for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-25 L. Caffarelli , A. Mellet , Y. Sire

We consider an infinite-sized population where an infinite number of traits compete simultaneously. The replicator equation with a diffusive term describes time evolution of the probability distribution over the traits due to selection and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mi Jin Lee , Su Do Yi , Beom Jun Kim , Seung Ki Baek

Using a reaction-diffusion model with free boundaries in one space dimension for a single population species with density $u(t,x)$ and population range $[g(t), h(t)]$, we demonstrate that the Allee effects can be eliminated if the species…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-11 Yihong Du , Ling Li , Wenjie Ni , Narges Shabgard

We investigate wave propagation in rotationally symmetric tubes with a periodic spatial modulation of cross section. Using an asymptotic perturbation analysis, the governing quasi two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation can be reduced…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Ziepke , S. Martens , H. Engel

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

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 investigate travelling wave solutions in reaction-diffusion models of animal range expansion in the case that population diffusion is density-dependent. We find that the speed of the selected wave depends critically on the strength of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Beth M. Stokes , Tim Rogers , Richard James

This paper is concerned with a model for the dynamics of a single species in a one-dimensional heterogeneous environment. The environment consists of two kinds of patches, which are periodically alternately arranged along the spatial axis.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-04 François Hamel , Frithjof Lutscher , Mingmin Zhang

This article investigates a mathematical model for bushfire propagation, focusing on the existence and properties of translating solutions. We obtain quantitative bounds on the environmental diffusion coefficient and ignition kernels,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

Traveling waves are ubiquitous in nature and control the speed of many important dynamical processes, including chemical reactions, epidemic outbreaks, and biological evolution. Despite their fundamental role in complex systems, traveling…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-30 Oskar Hallatschek

The paper is devoted to a reaction-diffusion equation with doubly nonlocal nonlinearity arising in various applications in population dynamics. One of the integral terms corresponds to the nonlocal consumption of resources while another one…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-19 M. Banerjee , V. Vougalter , V. Volpert

We consider a free boundary model of epithelial cell migration with logistic growth and nonlinear diffusion induced by mechanical interactions. Using numerical simulations, phase plane and perturbation analysis, we find and analyse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-05 Ryan J Murphy , Pascal R Buenzli , Ruth E Baker , Matthew J Simpson

We investigate spreading properties of solutions of a large class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems, including prey-predator systems as a special case. By spreading properties we mean the long time behaviour of solution fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

This paper is devoted to the investigation of spatial spreading speeds and traveling wave solutions of monostable evolution equations with nonlocal dispersal in time and space periodic habitats. It has been shown in an earlier work by the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Nar Rawal , Wenxian Shen , Aijun Zhang

Invasion fronts in ecology are well studied but very few mathematical results concern the case with variable motility (possibly due to mutations). Based on an apparently simple reaction-diffusion equation, we explain the observed phenomena…

Sufficient conditions for either existence or non-existence of traveling wave solutions for a general quasi-linear reaction-diffusion-convection equation, possibly highly degenerate or singular, with discontinuous coefficients are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Umberto Guarnotta , Cristina Marcelli

Standard diffusion equation is based on Brownian motion of the dispersing species without considering persistence in the movement of the individuals. This description allows for the instantaneous spreading of the transported species over an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-13 Pushpita Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

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

We consider a single component reaction-diffusion equation in one dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. Our main result shows the existence, uniqueness (up to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

We study travelling-wave solutions for a reaction-diffusion system arising as a model for host-tissue degradation by bacteria. This system consists of a parabolic equation coupled with an ordinary differential equation. For large values of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Danielle Hilhorst , John R. King , Matthias Röger