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The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time heterogeneous nonlinearity of ignition type. It is proven that such an equation admits space monotone transition fronts with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

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

The nonlocal Fisher equation is a diffusion-reaction equation with a nonlocal quadratic competition, which describes the reaction between distant individuals. This equation arises in evolutionary biological systems, where the arena for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-25 Yehuda A. Ganan , David A. Kessler

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 study acceleration phenomena in monostable integro-differential equations with ignition nonlinearity. Our results cover fractional Laplace operators and standard convolutions in a unified way, which is also a contribution of this paper.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville , Guillaume Legendre

We consider one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations for a large class of spatially periodic nonlinearities (including multistable ones) and study the asymptotic behavior of solutions with Heaviside type initial data. Our analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

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

The empirical velocity of a reaction-diffusion front, propagating into an unstable state, fluctuates because of the shot noises of the reactions and diffusion. Under certain conditions these fluctuations can be described as a diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Evgeniy Khain , Baruch Meerson , Pavel Sasorov

We establish in this article spreading properties for the solutions of equations of the type $\partial$ t u -- a(x)$\partial$ xx u -- q(x)$\partial$ x u = f (x, u), where a, q, f are only assumed to be uniformly continuous and bounded in x,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Henri Berestycki , Grégoire Nadin

In this paper we study pattern formation arising in a system of a single reaction-diffusion equation coupled with subsystem of ordinary differential equations, describing spatially-distributed growth of clonal populations of precancerous…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-14 Yuriy Golovaty , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Mariya Ptashnyk

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Saumyajit Das , Ram Gopal Jaiswal

We study the speed of propagation of fronts for the scalar reaction-diffusion equation $u_t = u_{xx} + f(u)$\, with $f(0) = f(1) = 0$. We give a new integral variational principle for the speed of the fronts joining the state $u=1$ to…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

The question addressed here is the long time evolution of the solutions to a class of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations, in which the diffusion is given by an integral operator. The underlying motivation, discussed in the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Hongjun Guo , Francois Hamel , Wei-Jie Sheng

We describe the resulting spatiotemporal dynamics when a homogeneous equilibrium loses stability in a spatially extended system. More precisely, we consider reaction-diffusion systems, assuming only that the reaction kinetics undergo a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Montie Avery

We consider a propagation of transition fronts in one-dimensional chains with bi-stable nondegenerate on-site potential. If one adopts linear coupling in the chain and piecewise linear on-site force, then it is possible to develop…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-24 I. B. Shiroky , O. V. Gendelman

We determine the asymptotic spreading speed of the solutions of a Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation, starting from compactly supported initial data, when the diffusion coefficient is a fixed bounded monotone profile that is shifted at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Grégory Faye , Thomas Giletti , Matt Holzer

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of nonlocal bistable reaction-diffusion equations starting from compactly supported initial conditions. Depending on the relationship between the nonlinearity, the interaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Christophe Besse , Alexandre Capel , Grégory Faye , Guilhem Fouilhé

In this paper, we first consider two scalar nonlocal diffusion problems with a free boundary and a fixed boundary. We obtain the global existence, uniqueness and longtime behaviour of solution of these two problems. The spreading-vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lei Li , Mingxin Wang

The paper concerns front propagation for the following mono-stable reaction-diffusion-advection equation \[f(u)u_x + g(u)u_\tau = [d(u)|u_x|^{p-2} u_x]_x+ \rho(u), \quad (x,\tau)\in \R\times [0,+\infty).\] Besides existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Cristina Marcelli