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A family of travelling wave solutions to the Fisher-KPP equation with speeds $c=\pm 5/\sqrt{6}$ can be expressed exactly using Weierstrass elliptic functions. The well-known solution for $c=5/\sqrt{6}$, which decays to zero in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-09-24 Scott W McCue , Maud El-Hachem , Matthew J Simpson

In this work, we consider a nonlocal Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion problem with Neumann boundary condition and nonnegative initial data in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n (n \ge 1)$, with reaction term $u^\alpha(1-m(t))$, where $m(t)$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Shen Bian , Li Chen , Evangelos A. Latos

We study the Cauchy problem in the hyperbolic space for the heat equation with a Fisher-KPP type forcing term. Depending on the relative strength of diffusion, measured by the infimum of the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 María del Mar González , Irene Gonzálvez , Fernando Quirós

In the current series of two papers, we study the long time behavior of the following random Fisher-KPP equation $$ u_t =u_{xx}+a(\theta_t\omega)u(1-u),\quad x\in\R, \eqno(1) $$ where $\omega\in\Omega$, $(\Omega, \mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Lionel Roques

We consider the solution to the scalar Fisher-KPP equation with front-like initial data, focusing on the location of its level sets at large times, particularly their deviation from points moving at the known spreading speed. We consider an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti , Dongyuan Xiao

We extend the class of initial conditions for scalar delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t (t,x)=u_{xx}(t,x)+f(u(t, x), u(t-h, x))$ which evolve in solutions converging to monostable traveling waves. Our approach allows to compute, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Abraham Solar , Sergei Trofimchuk

We show the relevance of the nonlinear Fisher and Kolmogorov-Petrovsky- Piscounov (KPP) equation to the problem of high energy evolution of the QCD amplitudes. We explain how the traveling wave solutions of this equation are related to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Munier , R. Peschanski

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of KPP type in one spatial dimension, perturbed by a Fisher-Wright white noise, under the assumption of uniqueness in distribution. Examples include the randomly perturbed Fisher-KPP equations $…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-20 Carl Mueller , Leonid Mytnik , Jeremy Quastel

In this manuscript, we study the positive solutions of the Finslerian Fisher-KPP equation $$ u_t=\Delta^{\nabla u} u+cu(1-u). $$ The Fisher-KPP equation is widely applied and connected to many mathematical branches. We establish the global…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Bin Shen , Dingli Xia

We consider a family of exact solutions to a nonlinear reaction-diffusion model, constructed using nonclassical symmetry analysis. In a particular limit, the mathematical model approaches the well-known Fisher-KPP model, which means that it…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-02-21 Scott W McCue , Bronwyn H Bradshaw-Hajek , Matthew J Simpson

We consider Fisher-KPP equation with advection: $u_t=u_{xx}-\beta u_x+f(u)$ for $x\in (g(t),h(t))$, where $g(t)$ and $h(t)$ are two free boundaries satisfying Stefan conditions. This equation is used to describe the population dynamics in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Hong Gu , Bendong Lou , Maolin Zhou

We consider the large time behaviour of solutions to the porous medium equation with a Fisher-KPP type reaction term and nonnegative, compactly supported initial function in $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N)\setminus\{0\}$: \begin{equation}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Yihong Du , Fernando Quiros , Maolin Zhou

We introduce a novel numerical method for direct simulation of front propagation in the Fisher-KPP equation with a time-dependent parameter on an infinite domain. The method computes a time-dependent boundary condition that accurately…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-12 Troy Tsubota , Smridhi Mahajan , Adrian van Kan , Edgar Knobloch

Let $u$ be a solution of the Fisher-KPP equation $$ \partial_t u=\Delta u+f(u),\quad t>0,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N. $$ We address the following question: does $u$ become locally planar as $t\to+\infty$ ? Namely, does $u(t_n,x_n+\cdot)$ converge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 François Hamel , Luca Rossi

In the current series of two papers, we study the long time behavior of the following random Fisher-KPP equation $$ u_t =u_{xx}+a(\theta_t\omega)u(1-u),\quad x\in\mathbb{R} $$ where $\omega\in\Omega$, $(\Omega, \mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

This paper is concerned with the initial value problem for semilinear wave equation with structural damping $u_{tt}+(-\Delta)^{\sigma}u_t -\Delta u =f(u)$, where $\sigma \in (0,\frac{1}{2})$ and $f(u) \sim |u|^p$ or $u |u|^{p-1}$ with $p> 1…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Taeko Yamazaki

We consider the nonlocal KPP-Fisher equation $u_t(t,x) = u_{xx}(t,x) + u(t,x)(1-(K *u)(t,x))$ which describes the evolution of population density $u(t,x)$ with respect to time $t$ and location $x$. The non-locality is expressed in terms of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Karel Hasik , Jana Kopfová , Petra Nábělková , Sergei Trofimchuk

We give an iterative method to estimate the disturbance of semi-wavefronts of the equation: $\dot{u}(t,x) = u''(t,x) +u(t,x)(1-u(t-h,x)),$ $x \in \mathbb{R},\ t >0;$ where $h>0.$ As a consequence, we show the exponential stability, with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Rafael Benguria D. , Abraham Solar

We study entire solutions to homogeneous reaction-diffusion equations in several dimensions with Fisher-KPP reactions. Any entire solution $0<u<1$ is known to satisfy \[ \lim_{t\to -\infty} \sup_{|x|\le c|t|} u(t,x) = 0 \qquad \text{for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Amir Alwan , Zonglin Han , Jessica Lin , Zijian Tao , Andrej Zlatos