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The paper is concerned with a singular limit for the bistable traveling wave problem in a very large class of two-species fully nonlinear parabolic systems with competitive reaction terms. Assuming existence of traveling waves and enough…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Léo Girardin , Danielle Hilhorst

The spreading phenomena in modified Leslie-Gower reaction-diffusion predator-prey systems are the topic of this paper. We mainly study the existence of two different types of traveling waves. Be specific, with the aid of the upper and lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Hongliang Li , Min Zhao , Rong Yuan

In this paper, we study the large time behaviour of solutions of multistable reaction-diffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$, with a spatially periodic heterogeneity. By multistable, we mean that the problem admits a finite -- but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Thomas Giletti , Luca Rossi

Hybrid models of chemotaxis combine agent-based models of cells with partial differential equation models of extracellular chemical signals. In this paper, travelling wave properties of hybrid models of bacterial chemotaxis are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Benjamin Franz , Chuan Xue , Kevin J. Painter , Radek Erban

We consider the reaction-diffusion equation \begin{equation*} u_t=u_{xx}+\mu\left(\int_\Omega M(y,z)u(t,x,z)dz-u\right) + u\left(a(y)-\int_\Omega K(y,z) u(t,x,z)dz\right) , \end{equation*} where $ u=u(t,x,y) $ stands for the density of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Quentin Griette

In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion system describing the propagation of flames under the assumption of ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order. It was shown in [3] that this system admits a traveling front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Amanda Matson , Claude-Michel Brauner , Peter V. Gordon

We consider quasi-stationary (travelling wave type) solutions to a general nonlinear reaction-convection-diffusion equation with arbitrary, autonomous coefficients. The second order nonlinear equation describing one dimensional travelling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 T. Harko , M. K. Mak

The present work is devoted to the modelling which is based on the modified Cahn-Hilliard equation, the interplay of equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions. The non-equilibrium phase transitions are modelled by the Schl\"ogl…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 P. O. Mchedlov-Petrosyan , L. N. Davydov

A simple model is studied for the chemotactic movement of biological cells in the presence of a periodic chemical wave. It incorporates the feature of adaptation that may play an important role in allowing for ``rectified" chemotaxis:…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Raymond E. Goldstein

We investigate numerically the blocking of two-dimensional bistable reaction diffusion fronts by geometric obstacles. Our goal is to derive quantitative criteria for front propagation in the presence of spatial heterogeneities. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , J. Gatlik , B. Sarels

Propagation failure (pinning) of traveling waves is studied in a discrete scalar reaction-diffusion equation with a piecewise linear, bistable reaction function. The critical points of the pinning transition, and the wavefront profile at…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Gabor Fath

In this paper, we investigate a reaction-diffusion-advection model with time delay effect. The stability/instability of the spatially nonhomogeneous positive steady state and the associated Hopf bifurcation are investigated when the given…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Shanshan Chen , Yuan Lou , Junjie Wei

The topic of this paper are nonlinear traveling waves occuring in a system of damped waves equations in one space variable. We extend the freezing method from first to second order equations in time. When applied to a Cauchy problem, this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Wolf-Jürgen Beyn , Denny Otten , Jens Rottmann-Matthes

We discuss a class of hyperbolic reaction-diffusion equations and apply the modified method of simplest equation in order to obtain an exact solution of an equation of this class (namely the equation that contains polynomial nonlinearity of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-08-08 I. P. Jordanov , Nikolay K. Vitanov

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

A system of equations of the reaction-diffusion type is studied in the framework of both the direct and the inverse prolongation structure. We find that this system allows an incomplete prolongation Lie algebra, which is used to find the…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Alfinito , V. Grassi , R. A. Leo , G. Profilo , G. Soliani

This paper is concerned with a chemotaxis model with logarithmic sensitivity and fast diffusion, which possesses strong singularities for the sensitivity at zero-concentration of chemical signal, and for the diffusion at zero-population of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Xiaowen Li , Dongfang Li , Jingyu Li , Ming Mei

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

This paper is concerned with traveling wave solutions for a chemotaxis model with degenerate diffusion of porous medium type. We establish the existence of semi-finite traveling waves, including the sharp type and $C^1$ type semi-finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Shanming Ji , Zhian Wang , Tianyuan Xu , Jingxue Yin

Starting from the kinetic approach for a mixture of reacting gases whose particles interact through elastic scattering and a bimolecular reversible chemical reaction, the equations that govern the dynamics of the system are obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rossani , A. M. Scarfone