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These notes are based on the lectures given in a mini-course at VIASM (Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics) 2025 Summer School. They give a brief account of the theory (with detailed proofs) for propagation governed by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Yihong Du

The problem of flame propagation is studied as an example of unstable fronts that wrinkle on many scales is studied. The analytic tool of pole expansion in the complex plane is emloyed to address the interaction of the unstable growth…

adap-org · Physics 2011-08-19 Zeev Olami , Barak Galanti , Oleg Kupervasser , Itamar Procaccia

We study multiplicity of the supercritical traveling front solutions for scalar reaction-diffusion equations in infinite cylinders which invade a linearly unstable equilibrium. These equations are known to possess traveling wave solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-24 P. V. Gordon , C. B. Muratov , M. Novaga

We investigate a reaction-diffusion-advection equation of the form $u_t-u_{xx}+\beta u_x=f(u)$ $(t>0,\,0<x<h(t))$ with mixed boundary condition at $x=0$ and a free boundary condition at $x=h(t)$. Such a model may be applied to describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Yonggang Zhao , Mingxin Wang

We consider combustion problems in the presence of complex chemistry and nonlinear diffusion laws leading to fully nonlinear multispecies reaction-diffusion equations. We establish results of existence of solution and maximum principle,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Martine Marion , Roger Temam

In this work we present a mathematical model for the propagation of the shock waves that occur in graded density profiles. These waves can occur in a wide range of astrophysical events, such as collisions in planetary and stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Almog Yalinewich , Andrey Remorov

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

Standard diffusion equation is based on Brownian motion of the dispersing species without considering persistence in the movement of the individuals. This description allows for the instantaneous spreading of the transported species over an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-13 Pushpita Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

We consider a spatially homogeneous advection-diffusion equation in which the diffusion tensor and drift velocity are time-independent, but otherwise general. We derive asymptotic expressions, valid at large distances from a steady point…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 John Grant , Michael Wilkinson

This paper is concerned with the large-time dynamics of bounded solutions of reaction-diffusion equations with bounded or unbounded initial support in R N. We start with a survey of some old and recent results on the spreading speeds of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 François Hamel , Luca Rossi

This article is concerned with a system of semilinear parabolic equations with two free boundaries describing the spreading fronts of the invasive species in a mutualistic ecological model. The local existence and uniqueness of a classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Mei Li

The aim of this paper is to study the existence and the geometry of positive bounded wave solutions to a non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation of the monostable type.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Elena Trofimchuk , Pedro Alvarado , Sergei Trofimchuk

We study the planar front solution for a class of reaction diffusion equations in multidimensional space in the case when the essential spectrum of the linearization in the direction of the front touches the imaginary axis. At the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Anna Ghazaryan , Yuri Latushkin , Xinyao Yang

Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

Stationary solutions to the equations of non-linear diffusive shock acceleration play a fundamental role in the theory of cosmic-ray acceleration. Their existence usually requires that a fraction of the accelerated particles be allowed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 B. Reville , J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy

The system under study is a reaction-diffusion equation in a horizontal strip, coupled to a diffusion equation on its upper boundary via an exchange condition of the Robin type. This class of models was introduced by H. Berestycki, L. Rossi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Laurent Dietrich , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

We study front propagation in the reversible reaction-diffusion system A + A <-> A on a 1-d lattice. Extending the idea of leading particle in studying the motion of the front we write a master equation in the stochastically moving frame…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Niraj Kumar , Goutam Tripathy

A Markov chain model for spatially distributed autocatalytic systems with a quadratic reaction rate is considered. An approximate solution for the local probability distribution is obtained in the form of a perturbation expansion for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Velikanov , Raymond Kapral

Non-local equations of motion contain an infinite number of derivatives and commonly appear in a number of string theory models. We review how these equations can be rewritten in the form of a diffusion-like equation with non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 N. J. Nunes , D. J. Mulryne

The aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fisher-KPP equation with nonlocal diffusion. In specific we prove the existence of a critical speed so that traveling front type solutions exist up to this critical speed and non-existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 José Fuentealba , Alexander Quaas