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Rectification and diffusion of non-interacting self-propelled particles is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional corrugated channel. From numerical simulations, we obtain the average velocity and the effective diffusion coefficient.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bao-quan Ai , Qiu-yan Chen , Ya-feng He , Feng-guo Li , Wei-rong Zhong

We study the transient dynamics of single species reaction diffusion systems whose reaction terms $f(u)$ vary nonlinearly near $u\approx 0$, specifically as $f(u)\approx u^{2}$ and $f(u)\approx u^{3}$. We consider three cases, calculate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Giuggioli , Z. Kalay , V. M. Kenkre

We study front propagation phenomena for a large class of nonlocal KPP-type reaction-diffusion equations in oscillatory environments, which model various forms of population growth with periodic dependence. The nonlocal diffusion is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Andrei Tarfulea

We numerically study the propagation of reacting fronts in a shallow and horizontal layer of fluid with solutal feedback and in the presence of a thermally driven flow field of counter-rotating convection rolls. We solve the Boussinesq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-01 S. Mukherjee , M. R. Paul

We analyze the quench dynamics of a one-dimensional bosonic Mott insulator and focus on the time evolution of density correlations. For these we identify a pronounced propagation front, the velocity of which, once correctly extrapolated at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-22 Peter Barmettler , Dario Poletti , Marc Cheneau , Corinna Kollath

Flame propagation through a non-volatile solid-fuel suspension is studied using a simplified, time-dependent numerical model that considers the influence of both diffusional and kinetic rates on the particle combustion process. It is…

We consider the wave propagation for a reaction-diffusion equation on the real line, with a random drift and Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) type nonlinear reaction. We show that when the average drift is positive, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dihang Guan , Hui He , Wenqing Hu , Jiaojiao Yang

Dynamics of a particle diffusing in a confinement can be seen a sequence of bulk-diffusion-mediated hops on the confinement surface. Here, we investigate the surface hopping propagator that describes the position of the diffusing particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-23 Denis S. Grebenkov

Previous work has established that the localized regime of wave transport in open media is characterized by a position-dependent diffusion coefficient. In this work we study how the concept of position-dependent diffusion affects the delay…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-24 B. A. van Tiggelen , S. E. Skipetrov , J. H. Page

We study cumulative scattering effects on wave front propagation in time dependent randomly layered media. It is well known that the wave front has a deterministic characterization in time independent media, aside from a small random shift…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Liliana Borcea , Knut Solna

We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for a general Fisher-Burgers equation with nonlinear and possibly density-dependent diffusion. Such a model arises, for instance, in physical phenomena where a saturation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Maurizion Garrione , Marta Strani

We study reaction-diffusion waves on curved two-dimensional surfaces, and determine the influence of curvature upon the nucleation and propagation of spatially localized waves in an excitable medium modelled by the generic FitzHugh-Nagumo…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-08-13 Frederike Kneer , Eckehard Schöll , Markus A. Dahlem

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

A system of drift-diffusion equations with electric field under Dirichlet boundary conditions is analyzed. The system of strongly coupled parabolic equations for particle density and spin density vector describes the spin-polarized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Nicola Zamponi

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

The interface separating a liquid from its vapor phase is diffuse: the composition varies continuously from one phase to the other over a finite length. Recent experiments on dynamic jamming fronts in two dimensions [Waitukaitis et al.,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Jikai Wang , J. M. Schwarz , Joseph D. Paulsen

The critical dimension necessary for a flame to propagate in suspensions of fuel particles in oxidizer is studied analytically and numerically. Two types of models are considered: First, a continuum model, wherein the individual particulate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-23 Fredric Y. K. Lam , XiaoCheng Mi , Andrew J. Higgins

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation dynamics for a large class of non-monotone evolution systems. In two directions of the spatial variable, such a system has two limiting systems admitting the spatial translation invariance.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Taishan Yi , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We model the effects of cross-phase modulation in frequency (or wavelength) division multiplexed optical communications systems, using a Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially and temporally random potential. Green's functions for the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Green , P. B. Littlewood , P. P. Mitra , L. G. L. Wegener

In this note, we demonstrated for the first time that one can derive an expression for the effective diffusion coefficient, equal to the Lifson-Jackson formula, using a subsequent homogenization of the 1D reaction-diffusion-advection…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Steffen Martens