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Thin flame dynamics in a turbulent flow remains debated, with various parameterizations proposed for the typical flame propagation velocity. According to the classical Damk\"ohler's model based on Huygens' principle, a flame front should…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-09 Nihal Tawdi , Christophe Almarcha , Michael Le Bars

In this paper, curved fronts are constructed for spatially periodic bistable reaction-diffusion equations under the a priori assumption that there exist pulsating fronts in every direction. Some sufficient and some necessary conditions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Hongjun Guo , Wan-Tong Li , Rongsong Liu , Zhi-Cheng Wang

For certain values of the wave speed parameter, evolution equations for the temperature of a region of fuel admit traveling wave solutions describing fire fronts. We consider such a system in the form of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Olivia Chandrasekhar , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Blake Barker , Rodman Linn

The evolution of the interface propagation in a slowly rotating half-filled horizontal cylinder is studied using MRI. Initially, the cylinder contains two axially segregated bands of small and large particles with a sharp interface. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerald H. Ristow , Masami Nakagawa

We establish the existence of a stable foliation in the vicinity of a traveling front solution for systems of reaction diffusion equations in one space dimension that arise in the study of chemical reactions models and solid fuel…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-07-11 Yuri Latushkin , Roland Schnaubelt , Xinyao Yang

Properties of reaction zones resulting from A+B -> C type reaction-diffusion processes are investigated by analytical and numerical methods. The reagents A and B are separated initially and, in addition, there is an initial macroscopic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ioana Bena , Michel Droz , Kirsten Martens , Zoltan Racz

Reaction fronts evolving in a porous medium exhibit a rich dynamical behaviour. In presence of an adverse flow, experiments show that the front slows down and eventually gets pinned, displaying a particular sawtooth shape. Extensive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-28 Thomas Gueudré , Awadhesh Kumar Dubey , Laurent Talon , Alberto Rosso

A general phenomenological reaction-diffusion model for flow-induced phase transitions in complex fluids is presented. The model consists of an equation of motion for a nonconserved composition variable, coupled to a Newtonian stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. L. Goveas , P. D. Olmsted

We study the formation, evolution and structure of dissipative fronts produced by overtaking collisions of relativistic streams, with emphasis on strongly magnetized flows. The evolution of the system is followed using analytical approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Amir Levinson , Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

We study analytically and numerically a bistable reaction-diffusion equation on an arbitrary finite network. We prove that stable fixed points (multi-fronts) exist for any configuration as long as the diffusion is small. We also study fold…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-22 J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , P. Panayotaros

We consider bistable reaction-diffusion equations in funnel-shaped domains of R N made up of straight parts and conical parts with positive opening angles. We study the large time dynamics of entire solutions emanating from a planar front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-17 François Hamel , Mingmin Zhang

We consider the scenario of a magnetic field orthogonal to a front separating two media of different temperatures and densities, such as cold and warm interstellar gas, in a 2-D plane-parallel geometry. A linear stability analysis is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Jennifer M. Stone , Ellen G. Zweibel

Anti-phase and in-phase flickering modes of dual buoyant diffusion flames were numerically investigated and theoretically analyzed in this study. Inspired by the flickering mechanism of a single buoyant diffusion flame, for which the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-29 Tao Yang , Xi Xia , Peng Zhang

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

We investigate the evolution of interfaces among phases of the interstellar medium with different temperature. It is found that, for some initial conditions, the dynamical effects related to conductive fronts are very important even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , Yuri Shchekinov

We consider two semi-infinite quantum Ising chains initially at thermal equilibrium at two different temperatures and subsequently joined by an interaction between their end points. Transport properties such as the heat current are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-26 Gabriele Perfetto , Andrea Gambassi

The development and time evolution of a transport barrier in a magnetically confined plasma with non-monotonic, nonlinear dependence of the anomalous flux on mean gradients is analyzed. Upon consideration of both the spatial inhomogeneity…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-30 V. B. Lebedev , P. H. Diamond

We have studied the front propagation in a one dimensional case of combustion by solving numerically an advection-reaction-diffusion equation. The physical model is simplified so that no coupling phenomena are considered and the reacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-07 Federico Bianco , Sergio Chibbaro , Roger Prud'homme

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

A thorough analysis is performed to find traveling waves in a qualitative reaction-diffusion system inspired by a predator-prey model. We provide rigorous results coming from a standard local stability analysis, numerical bifurcation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-09 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Pablo Aguirre , Víctor F. Breña-Medina