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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

Many systems in life sciences have been modeled by reaction-diffusion equations. However, under some circumstances, these biological systems may experience instantaneous and periodic perturbations (e.g. harvest, birth, release, fire events,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-28 J. Banasiak , Y. Dumont , I. V. Yatat Djeumen

In this paper, we study the existence of traveling wave solutions and the spreading speed for the solutions of an age-structured epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion. Our proofs make use of the comparison principles both to construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Arnaud Ducrot , Hao Kang

Propagation of solitary waves in the presence of autocatalysis, diffusion, and symmetry breaking (differential) advection, is being studied. The focus is on drifting (propagating with advection) pulses that form via a convective instability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-02-08 Arik Yochelis , Moshe Sheintuch

We present a study of sound wave propagation in a time dependent random medium and an application to imaging. The medium is modeled by small temporal and spatial random fluctuations in the wave speed and density, and it moves due to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

We investigate the evolution of population density vector, $\bold{u}=\left(u^1,\cdots,u^k\right)$, of $k$-species whose diffusion is controlled by its absolute value $\left|\bold{u}\right|$. More precisely we study the properties and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Sunghoon Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

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 establish a comprehensive probability theory for coherent transport of random waves through arbitrary linear media. The transmissivity distribution for random coherent waves is a fundamental B-spline with knots at the transmission…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yunrui Wang , Cheng Guo

We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

We study reaction-diffusion particle systems with several interaction mechanisms. As the number of particles tends to infinity, the system admits a mean-field limit describing the bulk behaviour. We focus on determining the propagation…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Matthieu Jonckheere , Seva Shneer

We consider a Fisher-KPP-type equation, where both diffusion and nonlinear part are nonlocal, with anisotropic probability kernels. Under minimal conditions on the coefficients, we prove existence, uniqueness, and uniform space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

The main topic of this paper is the analysis and modeling of stop-and-go waves, observable in experiments of single lane movement with pedestrians. The velocity density relation using measurements on a 'microscopic' scale shows the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-30 Andrea Portz , Armin Seyfried

Standard Reaction-Diffusion (RD) systems are characterized by infinite velocities and no persistence in the movement of individuals, two conditions that are violated when considering living organisms. Here we consider a discrete particle…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Davide Vergni , Stefano Berti , Angelo Vulpiani , Massimo Cencini

We consider reaction-diffusion systems on the infinite line that exhibit a family of spectrally stable spatially periodic wave trains $u_0(kx-\om t;k)$ that are parameterized by the wave number $k$. We prove stable diffusive mixing of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-15 Björn Sandstede , Arnd Scheel , Guido Schneider , Hannes Uecker

Recent asymptotic results by the authors provided detailed information on the shape of solitary high-energy travelling waves in FPU atomic chains. In this note we use and extend the methods to understand the linearisation of the travelling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Michael Herrmann , Karsten Matthies

We experimentally, numerically and analytically explore the diffusive transport of active colloidal particles with sensory delay, navigating motility landscapes in which the self-propulsion speed depends on space. We show how the transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Adrià Garcés , Ueli Töpfer , Lucio Isa , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The aim of the current paper is to study the existence of traveling wave solutions (TWS) for a vaccination epidemic model with bilinear incidence. The existence result is determined by the basic reproduction number $\Re_0$. More…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Ran Zhang , Shengqiang Liu

We consider an epidemic model with distributed-contacts. When the contact kernel concentrates, one formally reaches a very degenerate Fisher-KPP equation with a diffusion term that is not in divergence form. We make an exhaustive study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Matthieu Alfaro , Maxime Herda , Andrea Natale

Epidemic spreading often occurs in spatially heterogeneous environments, yet how quenched heterogeneity reshapes its onset and critical dynamics remains poorly understood. The diffusive epidemic process, a minimal reaction-diffusion model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Valentin Anfray , Hong-Yan Shih