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An analysis of traveling wave solutions of pure cross-diffusion systems, i.e., systems that lack reaction and self-diffusion terms, is presented. Using the qualitative theory of phase plane analysis the conditions for existence of different…

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Excluded-volume effects can play an important role in determining transport properties in diffusion of particles. Here, the diffusion of finite-sized hard-core interacting particles in two or three dimensions is considered systematically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-06 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman

In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Riccarda Rossi

We investigate the emergence of subdiffusive transport by obstruction in continuum models for molecular crowding. While the underlying percolation transition for the accessible space displays universal behavior, the dynamic properties…

The aim of this paper is to discuss the appropriate modelling of in- and outflow boundary conditions for nonlinear drift-diffusion models for the transport of particles including size exclusion and their effect on the behaviour of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Martin Burger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

Scientists have observed and studied diffusive waves in contexts as disparate as population genetics and cell signaling. Often, these waves are propagated by discrete entities or agents, such as individual cells in the case of cell…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-21 Paul Dieterle , Ariel Amir

The basic conceptual picture and theoretical basis for development of transport equations in porous media are examined. The general form of the governing equations is derived for conservative chemical transport in heterogeneous geological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brian Berkowitz , Joseph Klafter , Ralf Metzler , Harvey Scher

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

The aim is to assess the combined effect of diffusion and dispersion on shocks in the moderate dispersion regime. For a diffusive dispersive approximation of the equations of one-dimensional elasticity (or p-system), we study convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Daria Bolbot , Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

Diffusion models conditioned on identity embeddings enable the generation of synthetic face images that consistently preserve identity across multiple samples. Recent work has shown that introducing an additional negative condition through…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

In this paper, the positive solutions of a diffusive competition model with saturation are mainly discussed. Under certain conditions, the stability and multiplicities of coexistence states are analyzed. And by using the topological degree…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Aung Zaw Myint , Li Li , Mingxin Wang

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

A particle with internal unobserved states diffusing in a force field will generally display effective advection-diffusion. The drift velocity is proportional to the mobility averaged over the internal states, or effective mobility, while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Erik Aurell , Stefano Bo

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of porous medium type, with different kind of reaction terms, and nonnegative bounded initial data. For all the reaction terms under consideration there are initial data for which the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Alejandro Gárriz

Diffusion of self-propelled particles in the presence of randomly distributed obstacles in three dimensions is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that depending on the magnitude of the propelling force and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Hamidreza Khalilian , Hossein Fazli

We consider a diffuse interface model which describes the motion of an incompressible isothermal mixture of two immiscible fluids. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Sergio Frigeri , Ciprian G. Gal , Maurizio Grasselli

The transport of an infinitely thin, hard rod in a random, dense array of point obstacles is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Our model mimics the sterically hindered dynamics in dense needle liquids. The center-of-mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-22 Felix Höfling , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

We study the effect of advection and noise on the field theory for directed percolation (DP). We show that even a very small advective velocity is enough to change the universality class of the dynamic phase transition. When the noise is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-03 C. Barrett-Freeman , M. R. Evans , D. Marenduzzo , J. Tailleur

We consider a two-dimensional model of double-diffusive convection and its time discretisation using a second-order scheme which treat the nonlinear term explicitly (backward differentiation formula with a one-leg method). Uniform bounds on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Florentina Tone , Xiaoming Wang , Djoko Wirosoetisno

Energy distributions of high frequency linear wave fields are often modelled in terms of flow or transport equations with ray dynamics given by a Hamiltonian vector field in phase space. Applications arise in underwater and room acoustics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 David Chappell , Gregor Tanner , Niels Sondergaard , Dominik Loechel