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The present work concerns a version of the Fisher-KPP equation where the nonlinear term is replaced by a saturation mechanism, yielding a free boundary problem with mixed conditions. Following an idea proposed in [BrunetDerrida.2015], we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Julien Berestycki , Éric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

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

We study the one-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation, with an initial condition $u_0(x)$ that coincides with the step function except on a compact set. A well-known result of M. Bramson states that, as $t\to+\infty$, the solution converges to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik

We establish in this paper the logarithmic Bramson correction for Fisher-KPP equations on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}$. The level sets of solutions with step-like initial conditions are located at position $c_*t-\frac{3}{2\lambda_*}\ln…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Christophe Besse , Grégory Faye , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Mingmin Zhang

We consider the solution to the scalar Fisher-KPP equation with front-like initial data, focusing on the location of its level sets at large times, particularly their deviation from points moving at the known spreading speed. We consider an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti , Dongyuan Xiao

A family of travelling wave solutions to the Fisher-KPP equation with speeds $c=\pm 5/\sqrt{6}$ can be expressed exactly using Weierstrass elliptic functions. The well-known solution for $c=5/\sqrt{6}$, which decays to zero in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-09-24 Scott W McCue , Maud El-Hachem , Matthew J Simpson

We consider a class of reaction-diffusion equations of Fisher-KPP type in which the nonlinearity (reaction term) $f$ is merely $C^1$ at $u=0$ due to a logarithmic competition term. We first derive the asymptotic behavior of (minimal speed)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Emeric Bouin , Christopher Henderson

We study the large time asymptotics of a solution of the Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation, with an initial condition that is a compact perturbation of a step function. A well-known result of Bramson states that, in the reference frame…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-20 James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik

We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Lionel Roques

We obtain the exact analytical traveling wave solutions of the Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov equation with the reaction term belonging to the class of functions, which includes that of the (generalized) Fisher equation, for the particular…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Eugene Kogan

We consider the Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation in the whole space. We prove that if a solution has, to main order and for all times (positive and negative), the same exponential decay as a planar traveling wave with speed larger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Christos Sourdis

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 consider the one-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation with step-like initial data. Nolen, Roquejoffre, and Ryzhik showed that the solution $u$ converges at long time to a traveling wave $\phi$ at a position $\tilde \sigma(t) = 2t - (3/2)\log…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Cole Graham

We consider a Fisher-KPP-type equation, where both diffusion and nonlinear part are nonlocal, with anisotropic probability kernels. Under minimal conditions on the coefficients, we prove existence, uniqueness, and uniform space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

In this paper, we investigate the stability and uniqueness of generalized traveling wave solutions of lattice Fisher-KPP equations with general time and space dependence. We first show the existence, uniqueness, and stability of strictly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Feng Cao , Wenxian Shen

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 article produces wave equations and constructs traveling wave solutions that are intimately related to Newton's equations of celestial mechanics. The traveling wave solutions are expressed in ``closed form'' in terms of elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Harry Gingold , Jocelyn Quaintance

This paper investigates the existence of almost periodic traveling fronts for Fisher-KPP lattice equations in one-dimensional almost periodic media. By the Lyapunov exponent of the linearized operator near the unstable steady state, we give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Xing Liang , Hongze Wang , Qi Zhou , Tao Zhou

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

We study traveling waves for a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions. We describe relations between speeds and asymptotic of profiles of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov
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