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We prove existence and uniqueness of travelling waves for a reaction-diffusion system coupling a classical reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a diffusion equation on a line. To do this we use a continuation method which leads to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Laurent Dietrich

We consider a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation as a model for a population structured by a space variable and a phenotypical trait. To sustain the possibility of invasion in the case where an underlying principal eigenvalue is negative,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Matthieu Alfaro , Jérôme Coville , Gaël Raoul

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 present paper is devoted to the study of stability, uniqueness and recurrence of generalized traveling waves of reaction-diffusion equations in time heterogeneous media of ignition type, whose existence has been proven by the authors of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions in a space of bounded functions on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Using the properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

In this article, we are interested in a non-monotone system of logistic reaction-diffusion equations. This system of equations models an epidemics where two types of pathogens are competing, and a mutation can change one type into the other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Quentin Griette , Gaël Raoul

We study traveling waves for a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions. We describe relations between speeds and asymptotic of profiles of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

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

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

In this paper, we carry out a travelling-wave analysis of a model of tumour invasion with degenerate, cross-dependent diffusion. We consider two types of invasive fronts of tumour tissue into extracellular matrix (ECM), which represents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Chloé Colson , Faustino Sánchez-Garduño , Helen M. Byrne , Philip K. Maini , Tommaso Lorenzi

We study the existence of traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems with delays in both diffusion and reaction terms of the form $\partial u(x,t)/\partial t = \Delta u(x,t-\tau_1)+f(u(x,t),u(x,t-\tau_2))$, where $\tau_1,\tau_2$ are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-23 William Barker , Nguyen Van Minh

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

In this paper, we investigated a density-dependent reaction-diffusion equation, $u_t = (u^{m})_{xx} + u - u^{m}$. This equation is known as the extension of the Fisher or Kolmogoroff-Petrovsky-Piscounoff equation which is widely used in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Waipot Ngamsaad , Kannika Khompurngson

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

We consider a minimal go-or-grow model of cell invasion, whereby cells can either proliferate, following logistic growth, or move, via linear diffusion, and phenotypic switching between these two states is density-dependent. Formal analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Carles Falcó , Rebecca M. Crossley , Ruth E. Baker

Self-activation coupled to a transport mechanism results in traveling waves that describe polymerization reactions, forest fires, tumor growth, and even the spread of epidemics. Diffusion is a simple and commonly used model of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-06 Keisuke Ishihara , Ashish B. George , Ryan Cornelius , Kirill S. Korolev

We consider solutions of a scalar reaction-diffusion equation of the ignition type with a random, stationary and ergodic reaction rate. We show that solutions of the Cauchy problem spread with a deterministic rate in the long time limit. We…

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

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

Single-species reaction-diffusion equations, such as the Fisher-KPP and Porous-Fisher equations, support travelling wave solutions that are often interpreted as simple mathematical models of biological invasion. Such travelling wave…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-04 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov
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