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The Fisher-KPP model, and generalisations thereof, is a simple reaction-diffusion models of biological invasion that assumes individuals in the population undergo linear diffusion with diffusivity $D$, and logistic proliferation with rate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-25 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

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

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a numerical counterpart of the KPP equation. We obtain the existence of monostable fronts for all super-critical speeds in the regime where the spatial step size is small. The key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Louis Garénaux , Hermen Jan Hupkes

Invasion waves are a fundamental building block of theoretical ecology. In this study we aim to take the first steps to link propagation failure and fast acceleration of traveling waves to critical transitions (or tipping points). The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-06 Christian Kuehn

We analyze the transition between pulled and pushed fronts both analytically and numerically from a model-independent perspective. Based on minimal conceptual assumptions, we show that pushed fronts bifurcate from a branch of pulled fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Montie Avery , Matt Holzer , Arnd Scheel

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

It is known that solutions of nonlocal dispersal evolution equations do not become smoother in space as time elapses. This lack of space regularity would cause a lot of difficulties in studying transition fronts in nonlocal equations. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We study the asymptotic spreading of Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) fronts in heterogeneous shifting habitats, with any number of shifting speeds, by further developing the method based on the theory of viscosity solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 King-Yeung Lam , Xiao Yu

This paper is concerned with the propagation phenomenon of the combustion reaction-diffusion equations in domains with multiple cylindrical branches. We first show that there is an entire solution emanating from planar traveling fronts in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng , Zhi-Cheng Wang

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of moving fronts in three-dimensional spaces, which form as a result of in-situ combustion during oil production. This phenomenon is also observed in other contexts, such as various autowave models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Aleksei Liubavin , Mingkang Ni , Ye Zhang , Dmitrii Chaikovskii

This paper is concerned with the existence and further properties of propagation speeds of transition fronts for bistable reaction-diffusion equations in exterior domains and in some domains with multiple cylindrical branches. In exterior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Hongjun Guo , Francois Hamel , Wei-Jie Sheng

The present paper is devoted to the investigation of various properties of transition fronts in nonlocal equations in heterogeneous media of ignition type, whose existence has been established by the authors of the present paper in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We study the coupling of a Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equation to a separate, advection-only transport process. We find that the front dynamics can be described by an FKPP-like equation only at sufficiently fast diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-06 Oleg Kogan , Kevin O'Keeffe , Christopher R. Myers

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time heterogeneous nonlinearity of ignition type. It is proven that such an equation admits space monotone transition fronts with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

Analysis of the speed of propagation in parabolic operators is frequently carried out considering the minimal speed at which its traveling waves move. This value depends on the solution concept being considered. We analyze an extensive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Margarita Arias , Juan Campos

We prove the existence of traveling fronts in diffusive Rosenzweig-MacArthur and Holling-Tanner population models and investigate their relation with fronts in a scalar Fisher-KPP equation. More precisely, we prove the existence of fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Hong Cai , Anna Ghazaryan , Vahagn Manukian

In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties of pushed fronts for the periodic reaction-diffusion-equation with general monostable nonlinearities. Especially, we prove the exponential behavior of pushed fronts when they are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Hongjun Guo

We consider reaction-diffusion equations $\partial_tu=\Delta u+f(u)$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ and we are interested in the large-time dynamics of solutions ranging in the interval $[0,1]$, with general unbounded initial support.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 François Hamel , Luca Rossi

In this paper, we investigate the location of the spreading front and convergence to traveling wave profile of solutions to the Fisher-KPP equation in the following two cases: (i) in unbounded domains with an expanding boundary; (ii) on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 King-Yeung Lam , Chang-Hong Wu

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