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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-10 James Nolen , Lenya Ryzhik

In this paper, we focus on the existence of propagation fronts, solutions to non-local dispersion reaction models. Our aim is to provide a unified proof of this existence in a very broad framework using simple real analysis tools. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville

A one species time-delay reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex networks is studied. Travelling waves are predicted to occur as follows a symmetry breaking instability of an homogenous stationary stable solution, subject to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Julien Petit , Timoteo Carletti , Mabor Asslani , Duccio Fanelli

In this paper we address the large-time behavior of solutions of bistable and multistable reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuities around the stable steady states. We show that the solution always converges to a special solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Thomas Giletti , Ho-Youn Kim

We give a variational proof of global stability for bistable travelling waves of scalar reaction-diffusion equations on the real line. In particular, we recover some of the classical results by P. Fife and J.B. McLeod without any use of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thierry Gallay , Emmanuel Risler

We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

We prove the existence of a continuous family of positive and generally non-monotone travelling fronts in delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*)$, when $g \in C^2(R_+,R_+)$ has exactly two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

Sufficient conditions for either existence or non-existence of traveling wave solutions for a general quasi-linear reaction-diffusion-convection equation, possibly highly degenerate or singular, with discontinuous coefficients are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Umberto Guarnotta , Cristina Marcelli

This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

The existence of travelling waves for a model of concentration waves of bacteria is investigated. The model consists in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of cells following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Vincent Calvez

In this paper, we study the existence of traveling wave solutions and the spreading speed for the solutions of an age-structured epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion. Our proofs make use of the comparison principles both to construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Arnaud Ducrot , Hao Kang

We consider the non-monotone degenerate diffusion equation with time delay. Different from the linear diffusion equation, the degenerate equation allows for semi-compactly supported traveling waves. In particular, we discover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

We extend the result on the stability of travelling waves for stochastic Nagumo equations in [St] to general bistable reaction-diffusion equations with both additive and multiplicative noise, using a variational approach based on functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Wilhelm Stannat

We show analytically and numerically that time delayed nonlocal response induces traveling localized states in bistable systems. These states result from fronts interaction. We illustrate this mechanism in a generic bistable model with a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-15 M. Clerc , S. Coulibaly , M. Tlidi

We investigate the connection between the existence of an explicit travelling wave solution and the travelling wave with minimal speed in a scalar monostable reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Elaine C. M. Crooks , Michael Grinfeld

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 study reaction-diffusion equations of various types in the half-space. For bistable reactions with Dirichlet boundary conditions, we prove conditional uniqueness: there is a unique nonzero bounded steady state which exceeds the bistable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Henri Berestycki , Cole Graham

Traveling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are well-studied for Lipschitz continuous monostable and bistable reaction functions. These special solutions play a key role in mathematical biology and in particular in the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Thomas Giletti , Ho-Youn Kim , Yong-Jung Kim

Using an abstract scheme of monotone semiflows, the existence of bistable traveling wave solutions of a competitive recursion system with Ricker nonlinearity is established. The traveling wave solutions formulate the strong inter-specific…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Shuxia Pan , Jie Liu