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We consider a class of cooperative reaction-diffusion systems with free boundaries in one space dimension, where the diffusion terms are nonlocal, given by integral operators involving suitable kernel functions, and they are allowed not to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Yihong Du , Wenjie Ni

The theory of traveling waves and spreading speeds is developed for time-space periodic monotone semiflows with monostable structure. By using traveling waves of the associated Poincar\'e maps in a strong sense, we establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Jian Fang , Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

In this paper, we study propagation in a nonlocal reaction-diffusion-mutation model describing the invasion of cane toads in Australia. The population of toads is structured by a space variable and a phenotypical trait and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez

We consider a scalar parabolic equation in one spatial dimension. The equation is constituted by a convective term, a reaction term with one or two equilibria, and a positive diffusivity which can however vanish. We prove the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

In this paper, the existence of a non-trivial, positive and bounded critical traveling wave solution of a diffusive disease model, whose reaction system has infinity many equilibria, is obtained for the first time. This gives an affirmative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Jiangbo Zhou , Haimei Xu , Jingdong Wei , Liyuan Son

We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive travelling wave solutions for multi-dimensional autonomous reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. To prove the existence of travelling waves, we give an abstract…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

We study the velocity of travelling waves of a reaction-diffusion system coupling a standard reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a one-dimensional diffusion equation on a line. We show that it grows like the square root of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Laurent Dietrich

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

We study a singular diffusive prey-predator system with nonlocal dispersal for which the carrying capacity of the predator is proportional to the density of prey. We show the existence of positive one-dimensional traveling waves connecting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Jong-Shenq Guo , François Hamel , Chin-Chin Wu

In this work, we first prove a stability theorem for traveling waves in a class of non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems with nonlocal dispersal of equal diffusivities. Our stability criterion is in the sense that the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Jong-Shenq Guo , Masahiko Shimojo

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

This paper is devoted to the analysis of some uniqueness properties of a classical reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-KPP type, coming from population dynamics in heterogeneous environments. We work in a one-dimensional interval $(a,b)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Lionel Roques , Michel Cristofol

Traveling wave solutions, in the form $u(x,t)=f(x+ct)$, to the generalized Burgers-Fisher equation $$ \partial_tu=u_{xx}+k(u^n)_x+u^p-u^q, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}\times(0,\infty), $$ with $n\geq2$, $p>q\geq1$ and $k>0$, are classified with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Ariel Sánchez

We consider the one-dimensional initial value problem for the viscous transport equation with nonlocal velocity $u_t = u_{xx} - \left(u (K^\prime \ast u)\right)_{x}$ with a given kernel $K'\in L^1(\R)$. We show the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

We study a reaction-diffusion system of partial differential equations, which can be taken to be a basic model for criminal activity. We show that the assumption of a populations natural tendency towards crime significantly changes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Henri Berestycki , Nancy Rodriguez , Lenya Ryzhik

We derive sufficient conditions for the existence of a periodic traveling wave solution to an integro-difference equation with a piecewise constant growth function exhibiting a stable period2 cycle and strong Allee effect. The mean…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-10 Michael Nestor , Bingtuan Li

We consider equation $u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*) $, when $g:\R_+\to \R_+$ has exactly two fixed points: $x_1= 0$ and $x_2=\kappa>0$. Assuming that $g$ is unimodal and has negative Schwarzian, we indicate explicitly a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Elena Trofimchuk , Sergei Trofimchuk

We prove the existence of a family of travelling wave solutions in a variant of the $\textit{Zeldovich-Frank-Kamenetskii (ZFK) equation}$, a reaction-diffusion equation which models the propagation of planar laminar premixed flames in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Samuel Jelbart , Kristian Uldall Kristiansen , Peter Szmolyan

In this work we investigate the existence of non-monotone traveling wave solutions to a reaction-diffusion system modeling social outbursts, such as rioting activity, originally proposed in arXiv:1502.04725v3. The model consists of two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Marzieh Bakhshi , Anna Ghazaryan , Vahagn Manukian , Nancy Rodriguez

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of the form \begin{equation*} u_t - d u_{xx} = f(t,u), \quad t>0,\ \ x \in [g(t), h(t)], \end{equation*} where $f(t,u)$ is periodic in $t$ and monostable in $u$, and the interval $[g(t), h(t)]$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Yihong Du , Zhuo Ma , Zhi-Cheng Wang