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We prove the existence of reaction-diffusion traveling fronts in mean zero space-time periodic shear flows for nonnegative reactions including the classical KPP (Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov) nonlinearity. For the KPP nonlinearity, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Nolen , Jack Xin

In this paper, we consider the phenomenon of monostable pulsating fronts for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion-advection systems in periodic media. Recent results have addressed the existence of pulsating fronts and the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Li-Jun Du , Wan-Tong Li , Ming-Zhen Xin

We investigate in this paper a scalar reaction diffusion equation with a nonlinear reaction term depending on x-ct. Here, c is a prescribed parameter modelling the speed of climate change and we wonder whether a population will survive or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Juliette Bouhours , Gregoire Nadin

We study the asymptotic speed of a random front for solutions $u_t(x)$ to stochastic reaction-diffusion equations of the form \[ \partial_tu=\farc{1}{2}\partial_x^2u+f(u)+\sigma\sqrt{u(1-u)}\dot{W}(t,x),~t\ge 0,~x\in\Rm, \] arising in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Carl Mueller , Leonid Mytnik , Lenya Ryzhik

We study the reaction-fractional-diffusion equation $u_t+(-\Delta)^{s} u=f(u)$ with ignition and monostable reactions $f$, and $s\in(0,1)$. We obtain the first optimal bounds on the propagation of front-like solutions in the cases where no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Yuming Paul Zhang , Andrej Zlatos

We study the existence and uniqueness of wavefronts to the scalar reaction-diffusion equations $u_{t}(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x) - u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)),$ with monotone delayed reaction term $g: \R_+ \to \R_+$ and $h >0$. We are mostly interested…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Elena Trofimchuk , Manuel Pinto , Sergei Trofimchuk

We consider a stochastically perturbed reaction diffusion equation in a bounded interval, with boundary conditions imposing the two stable phases at the endpoints. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the front separating the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 L. Bertini , S. Brassesco , P. Buttà

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

We discuss the front propagation in the $A+B\rightarrow 2A$ reaction under subdiffusion which is described by continuous time random walks with a heavy-tailed power law waiting time probability density function. Using a crossover argument,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 D. Froemberg , H. H. Schmidt-Martens , I. M. Sokolov , F. Sagués

Based on a recent work on traveling waves in spatially nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations, we investigate the existence of traveling fronts in reaction-diffusion equations with a memory term. We will explain how such memory terms can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Alexander Mielke , Sina Reichelt

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

We study the transient dynamics of single species reaction diffusion systems whose reaction terms $f(u)$ vary nonlinearly near $u\approx 0$, specifically as $f(u)\approx u^{2}$ and $f(u)\approx u^{3}$. We consider three cases, calculate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Giuggioli , Z. Kalay , V. M. Kenkre

We consider reaction-diffusion equations with combustion-type non-linearities in two dimensions and study speed-up of their pulsating fronts by general periodic incompressible flows with a cellular structure. We show that the occurence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Andrej Zlatos

In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties of pushed fronts for the periodic reaction-diffusion-equation with general monostable nonlinearities. Especially, we prove the exponential behavior of pushed fronts when they are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Hongjun Guo

We study the asymptotic stability of traveling fronts and front's velocity selection problem for the time-delayed monostable equation $(*)$ $u_{t}(t,x) = u_{xx}(t,x) - u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)),\ x \in \mathbb{R},\ t >0$, considered with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Abraham Solar , Sergei Trofimchuk

We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Lionel Roques

We study the effect of a cut-off on the speed of pulled fronts of the one dimensional reaction diffusion equation. We prove rigorous upper and lower bounds on the speed in terms of the cut-off parameter epsilon. From these bounds we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-18 Rafael D. Benguria , M. Cristina Depassier , Michael Loss

This paper is concerned with a time periodic competition-diffusion system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} {u_t}={u_{xx}}+u(r_1(t)-a_1(t)u-b_1(t)v),\quad t>0,~x\in \mathbb R, {v_t}=d{v_{xx}}+v(r_2(t)-a_2(t)u-b_2(t)v),\quad t>0,~x\in \mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Li-Jun Du , Wan-Tong Li , Jia-Bing Wang

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of moving fronts in three-dimensional spaces, which form as a result of in-situ combustion during oil production. This phenomenon is also observed in other contexts, such as various autowave models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Aleksei Liubavin , Mingkang Ni , Ye Zhang , Dmitrii Chaikovskii

This paper presents results on the unboundedness and minimal speed of traveling wave solutions for a one-dimensional spatial reaction-diffusion equation with an asymptotically linear reaction term and a saturation parameter. By applying a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yu Ichida