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Many reaction-diffusion models produce travelling wave solutions that can be interpreted as waves of invasion in biological scenarios such as wound healing or tumour growth. These partial differential equation models have since been adapted…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-03 Rebecca M. Crossley , Philip K. Maini , Tommaso Lorenzi , Ruth E. Baker

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

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

This paper deals with a nonhomogeneous scalar parabolic equation with possibly degenerate diffusion term; the process has only one stationary state. The equation can be interpreted as modeling collective movements (crowd dynamics, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We are concerned with travelling wave solutions arising in a reaction diffusion equation with bistable and nonlocal nonlinearity, for which the comparison principle does not hold. Stability of the equilibrium $u\equiv 1$ is not assumed. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Matthieu Alfaro , Jerome Coville , Gael Raoul

We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for a general Fisher-Burgers equation with nonlinear and possibly density-dependent diffusion. Such a model arises, for instance, in physical phenomena where a saturation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Maurizion Garrione , Marta Strani

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

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

This paper focuses on traveling wave solutions for the so-called Rosenzweig-MacArthur model with spatial diffusion. The main results of this note are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of traveling wave solution as well as periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Arnaud Ducrot , Zhihua Liu , Pierre Magal

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

We study the equation $u_t +uu_x +u-K*u=0$ in the case of an arbitrary $K \geq 0$, which is a generalization of a model for radiating gas, in which $K(y)={1/2}e^{-|y|}$. Using a monotone iteration scheme argument we establish the existence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Chmaj

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

We consider a free boundary model of epithelial cell migration with logistic growth and nonlinear diffusion induced by mechanical interactions. Using numerical simulations, phase plane and perturbation analysis, we find and analyse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-05 Ryan J Murphy , Pascal R Buenzli , Ruth E Baker , Matthew J Simpson

We consider a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-Kolmogoroff-Petrovsky-Piscounoff type. We investigate the effect of the interaction between the nonlinear diffusion coefficient and the reaction term on the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Pavel Drabek , Peter Takac

We consider a single component reaction-diffusion equation in one dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. Our main result shows the existence, uniqueness (up to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

We investigate in this paper propagation phenomena for the heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation $\partial_t u -\Delta u = f(t,u)$, $x\in R^N$, $t\in\R$, where f=f(t,u) is a KPP monostable nonlinearity which depends in a general way on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Grégoire Nadin , Luca Rossi

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

The paper is devoted to a reaction-diffusion equation with delay arising in modelling the immune response. We prove the existence of travelling waves in the bistable case using the Leray-Schauder method. In difference with the previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Sergei Trofimchuk , Vitaly Volpert

We consider the homogeneous integro-differential equation$\partial \_t u=J*u-u+f(u)$ with a monostable nonlinearity $f$. Our interest is twofold: we investigate the existence/non existence of travelling waves, and the propagation properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Matthieu Alfaro , Jérôme Coville

In this paper, we first focus on the speed selection problem for the reaction-diffusion equation of the monostable type. By investigating the decay rates of the minimal traveling wave front, we propose a sufficient and necessary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Chang-Hong Wu , Dongyuan Xiao , Maolin Zhou