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Presented is a data-driven Machine Learning (ML) framework for the identification and modeling of traveling wave spatiotemporal dynamics. The presented framework is based on the steadily-propagating traveling wave ansatz, $u(x,t) = U(\xi=x…

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We investigate numerically a model consisting in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of bacteria following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two reaction-diffusion equations for chemical signals. This model exhibits asymptotic…

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We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for the $1$-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation $$ u_t = (| u_x |^{p-2} u_x + | u_x |^{q-2} u_x)_x + f(u), $$ where the non-homogeneous operator appearing on the right-hand…

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This paper is devoted to the study of propagation phenomena for a Lotka-Volterra reaction-advection-diffusion competition model in a periodic habitat. We first investigate the global attractivity of a semi-trival steady state for the…

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Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-19 M. Banerjee , V. Vougalter , V. Volpert

We investigated travelling waves appearing as the primary pattern-forming instability in the nematic Phase 5 (Merck) in the planar geometry in order to test the recently developed weak electrolyte model of ac-driven electroconvection [M.…

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We consider the initial-boundary value problem of a system of reaction-diffusion equations with density-dependent motility \begin{equation*}\label{e1}\tag{$\ast$} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta(\gamma(v)u)+\alpha u F(w) -\theta u, &x\in \Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Hai-Yang Jin , Shijie Shi , Zhi-An Wang

We investigate wave propagation in rotationally symmetric tubes with a periodic spatial modulation of cross section. Using an asymptotic perturbation analysis, the governing quasi two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation can be reduced…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Ziepke , S. Martens , H. Engel

Motivated by analogies between the spreading of human-to-human infections and of chemical processes, we develop a comprehensive model that accounts both for infection and for transport. In this analogy, the three different populations of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-08 Harisankar Ramaswamy , Assad A Oberai , Yannis C Yortsos

We study traveling wave solutions of the following chemotaxis systems,$$\begin{cases}u_t=\Delta u-\chi_1\nabla(u\nabla v_1)+\chi_2\nabla(u\nabla v_2)+u(a-bu),\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N\\ 0=\Delta v_1-\lambda_1v_1+\mu_1u,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

We study the incompressible limit of the porous medium equation with a reaction term that is non-monotone with respect to the pressure variable. More specifically we consider reaction terms that are either bistable or monostable. We show…

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We study some anisotropic heterogeneous nonlinear integral equations arising in epidemiology. We focus on the case where the heterogeneities are spatially periodic. In the first part of the paper, we show that the equations we consider…

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We study a family of reaction-diffusion equations that present a doubly nonlinear character given by a combination of the $p$-Laplacian and the porous medium operators. We consider the so-called slow diffusion regime, corresponding to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Yihong Du , Alejandro Garriz , Fernando Quiros

We prove, under generic assumptions, that the special variational traveling wave that minimizes the exponentially weighted Ginzburg-Landau functional associated with scalar reaction-diffusion equations in infinite cylinders is the long-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-02 C. B. Muratov , M. Novaga

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The Fitzhugh-Nagumo equations have been used as a caricature of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations of neuron firing to better understand the essential dynamics of the interaction of the membrane potential and the restoring force and to capture,…

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Invasion phenomena for heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations are contemporary and challenging questions in applied mathematics. In this paper we are interested in the question of spreading for a reaction-diffusion equation when the…

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