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Reaction-diffusion equations appear in biology and chemistry, and combine linear diffusion with different kind of reaction terms. Some of them are remarkable from the mathematical point of view, since they admit families of travelling waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alessandro Audrito

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Ruth E. Baker

A modified method of functional constraints is used to construct the exact solutions of nonlinear equations of reaction-diffusion type with delay and which are associated with variable coefficients. This study considers a most generalized…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-10-26 M. O. Aibinu , S. C. Thakur , S. Moyo

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications in biology and chemistry. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

We study traveling waves for a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions. We describe relations between speeds and asymptotic of profiles of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

The propagation of unstable interfaces is at the origin of remarkable patterns that are observed in various areas of science as chemical reactions, phase transitions, growth of bacterial colonies. Since a scalar equation generates usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Michal Kolwalczyk , Benoit Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet

We consider a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-Kolmogoroff-Petrovsky-Piscounoff type. We investigate the effect of the interaction between the nonlinear diffusion coefficient and the reaction term on the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Pavel Drabek , Peter Takac

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

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

The Fisher-KPP equation with general nonlinear diffusion and arbitrary kinetic orders in the reaction terms is considered. The existence of oscillatory travelling wave solutions is proved for this model. Conditions for the existence of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ariel Sánchez-Valdés , Benito Hernández-Bermejo

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of random transition waves for time heterogeneous Fisher-KPP Equations with nonlocal diffusion. More specifically, we consider general time heterogeneities both for the nonlocal diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Min Zhao , Rong Yuan

Spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations typically admit pulsating waves which describe the transition from one steady state to another. Due to the heterogeneity, in general such an equation is not invariant by rotation and therefore…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Weiwei Ding , Thomas Giletti

In this paper we study the following one-dimensional reaction-diffusion problem $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^s u=f(x-c t, u) \;\:\textrm{ in } \mathbb{R}\times (0,+\infty), $$ where $s>\frac{1}{2}$, $c \in \mathbb{R}$ is a prescribed velocity, and $f$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sebastián Flores-Sepúlveda , Gabrielle Nornberg , Alexander Quaas

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

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

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of porous medium type, with different kind of reaction terms, and nonnegative bounded initial data. For all the reaction terms under consideration there are initial data for which the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Alejandro Gárriz

We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

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 prove existence and uniqueness of travelling waves for a reaction-diffusion system coupling a classical reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a diffusion equation on a line. To do this we use a continuation method which leads to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Laurent Dietrich

This paper is devoted to reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities depending periodically on time. These equations admit two linearly stable states. However, the reaction terms may not be bistable at every time. These may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Benjamin Contri
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