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We establish two integral variational principles for the spreading speed of the one dimensional reaction diffusion equation with Stefan boundary conditions. The first principle is valid for monostable reaction terms and the second principle…
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The dynamics of pulse solutions in a bistable reaction-diffusion system are studied analytically by reducing partial differential equations (PDEs) to finite-dimensional ordinary differential equations (ODEs). For the reduction, we apply the…