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This paper deals with the existence of traveling fronts guided by the medium for a KPP reaction-diffusion equation coming from a model in population dynamics in which there is spatial spreading as well as genetic mutation of a quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Henri Berestycki , Guillemette Chapuisat

The dynamics of an interface between the normal and superconducting phases under nonstationary external conditions is studied within the framework of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity, modified to include…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Alan T. Dorsey

We consider one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations for a large class of spatially periodic nonlinearities (including multistable ones) and study the asymptotic behavior of solutions with Heaviside type initial data. Our analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of moving fronts in three-dimensional spaces, which form as a result of in-situ combustion during oil production. This phenomenon is also observed in other contexts, such as various autowave models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Aleksei Liubavin , Mingkang Ni , Ye Zhang , Dmitrii Chaikovskii

We introduce a model of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations to describe the dynamics and propagation of flame fronts in random media. The model incorporates heat diffusion, its dissipation, and its production through coupling to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 N. Provatas , T. Ala-Nissila , M. Grant , K. R. Elder , L. Piché

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in narrow random channels. We approximate the generalized solution to this equation by the corresponding one on a random graph. By making use of large deviation analysis we study the asymptotic wave…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

We consider a diffusion process with coefficients that are periodic outside of an "interface region" of finite thickness. The question investigated in this article is the limiting long time/large scale behavior of such a process under…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Martin Hairer , Charles Manson

We consider a kinetic model of two species of particles interacting with a reservoir at fixed temperature, described by two coupled Vlasov-Fokker-Plank equations. We prove that in the diffusive limit the evolution is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guido Manzi , Rossana Marra

Propagation of traveling fronts in three-dimensional reaction-diffusion media with spatially modulated cross-section is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Applying appropriate perturbation techniques leads first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-26 S. Martens , J. Löber , H. Engel

We study reaction-diffusion systems where diffusion is by jumps whose sizes are distributed exponentially. We first study the Fisher-like problem of propagation of a front into an unstable state, as typified by the A+B $\to$ 2A reaction. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler

We use a new method in the study of Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations to prove existence of transition fronts for inhomogeneous KPP-type non-linearities in one spatial dimension. We also obtain new estimates on entire solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-17 Andrej Zlatos

We consider a Fisher-KPP equation with density-dependent diffusion and advection, arising from a chemotaxis-growth model. We study its behavior as a small parameter, related to the thickness of a diffuse interface, tends to zero. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Matthieu Alfaro , Elisabeth Logak

We investigate the propagation of fronts in an inhomogeneous medium within the framework of the $\phi^4$ model. The inhomogeneity is modeled either as an interface separating regions with different dissipation or as a finite layer with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-18 Jacek Gatlik , Tomasz Dobrowolski , Dominika Lasa , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We present a full classification of the short-time behaviour of the interfaces and local solutions to the nonlinear parabolic $p$-Laplacian type reaction-diffusion equation of non-Newtonian elastic filtration \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Roqia Jeli

This paper establishes existence, uniqueness, and an L^1-comparison principle for weak solutions of a PDE system modeling phase transition reaction-diffusion in congested crowd motion. We consider a general reaction term and mixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Noureddine Igbida , Fahd Karami , Driss Meskine

We study analytically and numerically a model describing front propagation of a KPP reaction in a fluid flow. The model consists of coupled one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with different drift coefficients. The main rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lam Raga A. Markely , David Andrzejewski , Erick Butzlaff , Alexander Kiselev

This paper deals with the large time dynamics of bounded solutions of reaction-diffusion equations with unbounded initial support in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We prove a variational formula for the spreading speeds in any direction, and we also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-08 François Hamel , Luca Rossi

We provide a theoretical framework to analyze the properties of frontal collisions of two growing interfaces considering different short range interactions between them. Due to their roughness, the collision events spread in time and form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-05 Fabio D. A. Aarao Reis , Olivier Pierre-Louis

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a system of nonlinear reaction--diffusion--advection equations in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via microscopic channels distributed within a thin membrane. Both the width of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lucas M. Fix , Gianna Götzmann , Malte A. Peter , Jan-F. Pietschmann

We propose a time-domain boundary integral method to model linear wave propagation with refractive, focusing, and Doppler effects arising from medium heterogeneities and moving obstacles. In contrast to existing techniques, our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Raaghav Ramani