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Kinematic equations for the motion of slowly propagating, weakly curved fronts in bistable media are derived. The equations generalize earlier derivations where algebraic relations between the normal front velocity and its curvature are…

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In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the microscopic interaction of the phase transition fronts with non-equilibrium plasma particles manifests itself macroscopically as friction forces. In general, it is a nontrivial problem to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ariel Megevand

We study the Fisher-KPP equation where the Laplacian is replaced by the generator of a Feller semigroup with power decaying kernel, an important example being the fractional Laplacian. In contrast with the case of the stan- dard Laplacian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Xavier Cabre , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

In this paper we consider a classical model of gasless combustion in a one dimensional formulation under the assumption of ignition temperature kinetics. We study the propagation of flame fronts in this model when the initial distribution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-06 Amanda Matson , Leonid Kagan , Claude-Michel Brauner , Gregory Sivashinsky , Peter V. Gordon

We propose a general method to study the solutions to nonlinear QCD evolution equations, based on a deep analogy with the physics of traveling waves. In particular, we show that the transition to the saturation regime of high energy QCD is…

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We take interest in a reaction-diffusion system which has been recently proposed [11] as a model for the effect of a road on propagation phenomena arising in epidemiology and ecology. This system consists in coupling a classical Fisher-KPP…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Thomas Giletti , Léonard Monsaingeon , Maolin Zhou

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

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

Reaction-diffusion problems are often described at a macroscopic scale by partial derivative equations of the type of the Fisher or Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equation. These equations have a continuous family of front solutions, each…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

In this paper, we generalize the usual notions of waves, fronts and propagation speeds in a very general setting. These new notions, which cover all classical situations, involve uniform limits, with respect to the geodesic distance, to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Henri Berestycki , François Hamel

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

We investigate pattern formation in a two-dimensional (2D) Fisher--Stefan model, which involves solving the Fisher--KPP equation on a compactly-supported region with a moving boundary. By combining the Fisher--KPP and classical Stefan…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Alexander K. Y. Tam , Matthew J. Simpson

This paper addresses the existence and spectral stability of traveling fronts for nonlinear hyperbolic equations with a positive "damping" term and a reaction function of bistable type. Particular cases of the former include the relaxed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramón G. Plaza , Chiara Simeoni

We consider a family of exact solutions to a nonlinear reaction-diffusion model, constructed using nonclassical symmetry analysis. In a particular limit, the mathematical model approaches the well-known Fisher-KPP model, which means that it…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-02-21 Scott W McCue , Bronwyn H Bradshaw-Hajek , Matthew J Simpson

The present paper is devoted to the study of existence, uniqueness and stability of transition fronts of nonlocal dispersal evolution equations in time heterogeneous media of bistable type under the unbalanced condition. We first study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

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

We propose a novel method for establishing the convergence rates of solutions to reaction-diffusion equations to traveling waves. The analysis is based on the study of the traveling wave shape defect function introduced in [2]. It turns out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik

Spontaneous pattern formation in living systems is driven by reaction-diffusion chemistry and active mechanics. The feedback between chemical and mechanical forces is often essential to robust pattern formation, yet it remains poorly…

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We treat a model of population dynamics in a periodic environment presenting a fast diffusion line. This phenomenon is modelled via a "road-field" system, which is a system of coupled reaction-diffusion equations set in domains of different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Elisa Affili

The existence and search for thermodynamic phase transitions is of unfading interest. In this paper, we present numerical evidence of dynamical phase transitions occurring in boundary driven systems with a constrained integrated current. It…

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