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We study the evolution of fronts in a bistable reaction-diffusion system when the nonlinear reaction term is spatially non-homogeneous. This equation has been used to model wave propagation in various biological systems. Extending previous…
We study nonlinear stability of spatially homogeneous oscillations in reaction-diffusion systems. Assuming absence of unstable linear modes and linear diffusive behavior for the neutral phase, we prove that spatially localized perturbations…
We study the global and local properties of positive solutions to the quasi-linear elliptic equation: \d u+|\nabla u|^q u^p=0,\quad x\in \O\subset \mathbb{R}^n,\nonumber where $q\ge 0$ and $p\in\mathbb{R}$. Our contributions are twofold: 1.…
In the current paper, we consider the following parabolic-elliptic semilinear Keller-Segel model on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_{t}=\nabla\cdot (\nabla u-\chi u\nabla v)+a u -b u^2, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\,\, t>0\cr…
We consider the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the parabolic equation \[ u_t- \operatorname{div} \left(|\nabla u|^{p(x,t)-2} \nabla u\right)= f(x,t) + F(x,t, u, \nabla u) \] in the cylinder $Q_T:=\Omega\times (0,T)$, where $\Omega\subset…
This paper quantifies the speed of convergence and higher- order asymptotics of fast diffusion dynamics on R^n to the Barenblatt (self similar) solution. Degeneracies in the parabolicity of this equation are cured by re-expressing the…
This paper is concerned with the global existence and stability of solution to the quasi linear hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system on the half-line,which was proposed in[1] to primarily describe the formation of coherent vascular…
In this paper we consider the following quasilinear Schr\"odinger-Poisson system $$ \left\{ \begin{array}[c]{ll} - \Delta u +u+\phi u = \lambda f(x,u)+|u|^{2^{*}-2}u &\ \mbox{in } \mathbb{R}^{3} \\ -\Delta \phi -\varepsilon^{4} \Delta_4…
We consider the following chemotaxis systems $$\begin{cases}u_t=\Delta u-\chi_1\nabla(u\nabla v_1)+\chi_2\nabla(u\nabla v_2)+u(a-bu),\ \ x\in\mathbb R^N,t>0,\\0=(\Delta-\lambda_1I)v_1+\mu_1u,\ \ x\in\mathbb…
We introduce a class of one-dimensional complex optical potentials that feature a nonlinearity-induced stability restoration, i.e., the existence of stable nonlinear modes propagating in a waveguide whose linear eigenmodes are unstable. The…
We construct nontrivial entire solutions for a bistable reaction-diffusion equation in a class of domains that are unbounded in one direction. The motivation comes from recent results of Berestycki, Bouhours, and Chapuisat concerning…
This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…
We consider a so-called random obstacle model for the motion of a hypersurface through a field of random obstacles, driven by a constant driving field. The resulting semi-linear parabolic PDE with random coefficients does not admit a global…
In this paper we describe the metastable behavior of solutions to a class of parabolic systems. In particular, we improve some results contained in \cite{MS} by using different techniques to describe the slow motion of the internal layers.…
This paper analyzes the structure of the set of positive solutions of a class of one-dimensional superlinear indefinite bvp's. It is a paradigm of how mathematical analysis aids the numerical study of a problem, whereas simultaneously its…
In this paper we characterise the global stability, global boundedness and recurrence of solutions of a scalar nonlinear stochastic differential equation. The differential equation is a perturbed version of a globally stable autonomous…
We consider reaction-diffusion fronts in spatially periodic bistable media with large periods. Whereas the homogenization regime associated with small periods had been well studied for bistable or Fisher-KPP reactions and, in the latter…
This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior as $t\rightarrow T<\infty$ of all weak (energy) solutions of a class of equations with the following model representative: \begin{equation*} (|u|^{p-1}u)_t-\Delta_p(u)+b(t,x)|u|^{\lambda-1}u=0…
The purpose of this paper is to study the asymptotic behavior of the positive solutions of the problem $$ \partial_t u-\Delta u=a u-b(x) u^p \text{in} \Omega\times \R^+, u(0)=u_0, u(t)|_{\partial \Omega}=0 $$ as $p\to +\infty$, where…
We demonstrate how the collective response of $N$ globally coupled bistable elements can strongly reflect the presence of very few non-identical elements in a large array of otherwise identical elements. Counter-intuitively, when there are…