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We present an exact treatment of wave propagation in some inhomogeneous thin films with highly space-dependent dielectric constant. It is based on a space transformation which replaces the physical space by the optical path. In the new…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guillaume Petite , Alexander Shvartsburg

The morphology of flame fronts propagating in reactive systems comprised of randomly positioned, point-like sources is studied. The solution of the temperature field and the initiation of new sources is implemented using the superposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-19 Fredric Lam , XiaoCheng Mi , Andrew J. Higgins

We establish the existence of semi-wavefronts solutions for a non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation with monostable nonlinearity. The existence result is proved for all speeds $c\geq c_\star$, where the determination of $c_\star$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Maitere Aguerrea , Carlos Gómez

The paper deals with the homogenization of reaction-diffusion equations with large reaction terms in a multi-scale porous medium. We assume that the fractures and pores are equidistributed and that the coefficients of the equations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Hermann Douanla , Jean Louis Woukeng

We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive travelling wave solutions for multi-dimensional autonomous reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. To prove the existence of travelling waves, we give an abstract…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

The theory of traveling waves and spreading speeds is developed for time-space periodic monotone semiflows with monostable structure. By using traveling waves of the associated Poincar\'e maps in a strong sense, we establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Jian Fang , Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

Self-activation coupled to a transport mechanism results in traveling waves that describe polymerization reactions, forest fires, tumor growth, and even the spread of epidemics. Diffusion is a simple and commonly used model of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-06 Keisuke Ishihara , Ashish B. George , Ryan Cornelius , Kirill S. Korolev

We consider a multidimensional monostable reaction-diffusion equation whose nonlinearity involves periodic heterogeneity. This serves as a model of invasion for a population facing spatial heterogeneities. As a rescaling parameter tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti

This paper is devoted to study the wave propagation and its stability for a class of two-component discrete diffusive systems. We first establish the existence of positive monotone monostable traveling wave fronts. Then, applying the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhixian Yu , Yuji Wan , Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

In turbulent flows subject to strong background rotation, the advective mechanisms of turbulence are superseded by the propagation of inertial waves, as the effects of rotation become dominant. While this mechanism has been identified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 J. A. Brons , P. J. Thomas , A. Potherat

Invasion phenomena for heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations are contemporary and challenging questions in applied mathematics. In this paper we are interested in the question of spreading for a reaction-diffusion equation when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Juliette Bouhours , Thomas Giletti

We study a diffusion process with random space-time dependent coefficients. Moreover the diffusion matrix is allowed to degenerate. An invariance principle is proved provided that the diffusion coefficient is controlled by a time…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Rémi Rhodes

This paper is concerned with the spatio-temporal dynamics of nonnegative bounded entire solutions of some reaction-diffusion equations in R N in any space dimension N. The solutions are assumed to be localized in the past. Under certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-18 F. Hamel , H Ninomiya

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear propagation phenomena for reaction-advection-diffusion equations in a periodic framework. It deals with travelling wave solutions of the equation $$u_t =\nabla\cdot(A(z)\nabla u) +q(z)\cdot\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Mohammad El Smaily

Time-varying media, characterized by dynamic or spacetime-modulated constitutive parameters such as permittivity and permeability, have recently emerged as a transformative paradigm for advanced wave control, transcending the constraints…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Youxiu Yu , Hao Hu , Qianru Yang , Linyang Zou , Dongjue Liu , Hao Chi Zhang , Yu Luo

We study the existence of particular traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear parabolic degenerate diffusion equation with a shear flow. Under some assumptions we prove that such solutions exist at least for propagation speeds c {\in}]c*,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Léonard Monsaingeon , Alexeï Novikov , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We propose a reaction-transport model for CTRW with non-linear reactions and non-exponential waiting time distributions. We derive non-linear evolution equation for mesoscopic density of particles. We apply this equation to the problem of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei Fedotov

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