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In this paper, we present an approach to characterising fast-reaction limits of systems with nonlinear diffusion, when there are either two reaction-diffusion equations, or one reaction-diffusion equation and one ordinary differential…

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This paper is concerned with the existence and further properties of propagation speeds of transition fronts for bistable reaction-diffusion equations in exterior domains and in some domains with multiple cylindrical branches. In exterior…

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Hypothesis: Diffusion in confinement is an important fundamental problem with significant implications for applications of supported liquid phases. However, resolving the spatially dependent diffusion coefficient, parallel and perpendicular…

An asymptotic limit of a class of Cahn-Hilliard systems is investigated to obtain a general nonlinear diffusion equation. The target diffusion equation may reproduce a number of well-known model equations: Stefan problem, porous media…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

In a recent paper, we have introduced a new model to describe front propagation in bushfires. This model describes temperature diffusion in view of an ignition process induced by an interaction kernel, the effect of the environmental wind…

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The spreading of evolutionary novelties across populations is the central element of adaptation. Unless population are well-mixed (like bacteria in a shaken test tube), the spreading dynamics not only depends on fitness differences but also…

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A wave equation, that governs finite amplitude acoustic disturbances in a thermoviscous Newtonian fluid, and includes nonlinear terms up to second order, is proposed. In contrast to the model known as the Kuznetsov equation, the proposed…

A description in terms of transition rates among cells is used to analyze self-diffusion of hard spheres in the fluid phase. Cell size is assumed much larger than the mean free path. Transition state theory is used to obtain an equation…

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The paper examines a class of first order linear hyperbolic systems, proposed as a generalization of the Goldstein-Kac model for velocity-jump processes and determined by a finite number of speeds and corresponding transition rates. It is…

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We introduce a 2D free boundary problem with nonlinear diffusion that models a living cell moving on a substrate. We prove that this nonlinearity results in a qualitative of solution behavior compared to the linear diffusion case (Rybalko…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Leonid Berlyand , Oleksii Krupchytskyi , Tim Laux

Condition imposed on the nonlinear terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation with {R}obin boundary condition is the main focus of this paper. The degenerate parabolic equations, such as the {S}tefan problem, the {H}ele--{S}haw problem, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Taishi Motoda , Takeshi Fukao

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 prove the short-time asymptotic formula for the interfaces and local solutions near the interfaces for the nonlinear double degenerate reaction-diffusion equation of turbulent filtration with fast diffusion and strong absorption \[…

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Second initial boundary problem in narrow domains of width $\epsilon\ll 1$ for linear second order differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions is considered in this paper. Using probabilistic methods we show that the solution…

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In this article we formulate new models for coupled systems of bulk-surface reaction-diffusion equations on stationary volumes. The bulk reaction-diffusion equations are coupled to the surface reaction-diffusion equations through linear…

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The nonlinear boson diffusion equation is taken as a basis to account for the fast thermalization of gluons in the initial stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. For constant drift and diffusion coefficients with schematic initial…

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Mathematical models describing the spatial spreading and invasion of populations of biological cells are often developed in a continuum modelling framework using reaction-diffusion equations. While continuum models based on linear diffusion…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-01-23 Matthew J Simpson , Keeley M Murphy , Scott W McCue , Pascal R Buenzli

We consider a multi-species reaction-diffusion system that arises in epidemiology to describe the spread of several strains, or variants, of a disease in a population. Our model is a natural spatial, multi-species, extension of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Romain Ducasse , Samuel Nordmann

This paper is concerned with the interaction between a planar traveling front and a compact obstacle for monotone bistable reaction-diffusion systems in exterior domains. By constructing appropriate sub- and supersolutions, we first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng

We study a reaction diffusion system where we consider a non-gaussian process instead of a standard diffusion. If the process increments follow a probability distribution with tails approaching to zero faster than a power law, the usual…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-07 Rosaria Mancinelli , Davide Vergni , Angelo Vulpiani