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In this paper, we first focus on the speed selection problem for the reaction-diffusion equation of the monostable type. By investigating the decay rates of the minimal traveling wave front, we propose a sufficient and necessary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Chang-Hong Wu , Dongyuan Xiao , Maolin Zhou

This paper is an introductory review of the problem of front propagation into unstable states. Our presentation is centered around the concept of the asymptotic linear spreading velocity v*, the asymptotic rate with which initially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Wim van Saarloos

We study convective stability of a two-front superposition in a reaction-diffusion system. Due to the instability of the connecting equilibrium, long-range semi-strong interaction is expected between the two waves. When restricting to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Louis Garénaux , Bastian Hilder

Front propagation into unstable states is often determined by the linearization, that is, propagation speeds agree with predictions from the linearized equation at the unstable state. The leading edge behavior is then a Gaussian tail…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Montie Avery , Matt Holzer , Arnd Scheel

The goal of this work is to understand and quantify how a line with nonlocal diffusion given by an integral enhances a reaction-diffusion process occurring in the surrounding plane. This is part of a long term programme where we aim at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Henri Berestycki , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Luca Rossi

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a traveling front and of its speed for the homogeneous heat equation in the half-plane with a Neumann boundary reaction term of non-balanced bistable type or of combustion type. We also establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Xavier Cabre , Neus Consul , Jose V. Mande

Fronts that start from a local perturbation and propagate into a linearly unstable state come in two classes: pulled and pushed. ``Pulled'' fronts are ``pulled along'' by the spreading of linear perturbations about the unstable state, so…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

This paper is devoted to reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities depending periodically on time. These equations admit two linearly stable states. However, the reaction terms may not be bistable at every time. These may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Benjamin Contri

We focus on the spreading properties of solutions of monostable equations with non-linear diffusion. We consider both the porous medium diffusion and the fast diffusion regimes. Initial data may have heavy tails, which tends to accelerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti

Front propagation in two dimensional steady and unsteady cellular flows is investigated in the limit of very fast reaction and sharp front, i.e., in the geometrical optics limit. In the steady case, by means of a simplified model, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Cencini , A. Torcini , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

Much has been studied on the spreading speed and traveling wave solutions for cooperative reaction-diffusion systems. In this paper, we shall establish the spreading speed for a large class of non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Haiyan Wang

We introduce a new velocity selection criterion for fronts propagating into unstable and metastable states. We restrict these fronts to large finite intervals in the comoving frame of reference and require their centers be insensitive to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Stavros Theodorakis , Epameinondas Leontidis

Nonlinear waves are a robust phenomenon observed in complex systems ranging from mechanics to ecology. Fronts are fundamental due to their robustness against perturbations and capacity to propagate one state over another. Controlling and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-14 David Pinto-Ramos

We consider here a model of accelerating fronts, introduced in [2], consisting of one equation with nonlocal diffusion on a line, coupled via the boundary condition with a reaction-diffusion equation of the Fisher-KPP type in the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Anne-Charline Chalmin , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

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

This paper is concerned with the existence and qualitative properties of pulsating fronts for spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities. We focus especially on the influence of the spatial period and,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Weiwei Ding , Francois Hamel , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We model the growth, dispersal and mutation of two phenotypes of a species using reaction-diffusion equations, focusing on the biologically realistic case of small mutation rates. After verifying that the addition of a small linear mutation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Aled Morris , Luca Börger , Elaine Crooks

We study invasion fronts and spreading speeds in two component reaction-diffusion systems. Using a variation of Lin's method, we construct traveling front solutions and show the existence of a bifurcation to locked fronts where both…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-04 Gregory Faye , Matt Holzer

This study investigates transient wave dynamics in Turing pattern formation, focusing on waves emerging from localised disturbances. While the traditional focus of diffusion-driven instability has primarily centred on stationary solutions,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-15 Václav Klika , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Philip K. Maini