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We study positive solutions to the steady state reaction diffusion systems of the form: \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u = \lambda f(v)+\mu h(u), & \Omega,\\ -\Delta v = \lambda g(u)+\mu q(v),& \Omega,\\ \frac{\partial…

The time-global unique solvability on the reaction diffusion equations for prey-predator models with density-dependent inhibitor and dormancy on predators is established. The crucial step of the proof is to construct time-local non-negative…

We consider weak distributional solutions to the equation $-\Delta_pu=f(u)$ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We assume that the nonlinearity is positive and superlinear at zero. For $p>2$ (the case $1<p\leq2$ is…

We show that the minimal speed for the existence of monotonic fronts of the equation $u_t = (u^m)_{xx} + f(u)$ with $f(0) = f(1) = 0$, $m >1$ and $f>0$ in $(0,1)$ derives from a variational principle. The variational principle allows to…

Let $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\eta>0$, $\eta_0>0$, $\rho_1>0$, $-\frac{\rho_1}{2}<\beta<\frac{m\rho_1}{n-2-nm}$ and $\alpha=\frac{2\beta+\rho_1}{1-m}$. We will prove the existence of radially symmetric solution of the equation…

A non-linear Black-Scholes-type equation is studied within counterparty risk models. The classical hypothesis on the uniform Lipschitz-continuity of the non-linear reaction function allows for an equivalent transformation of the semi-linear…

We prove the monotonicity of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+ := \{(x',x_N)\in\mathbb{R}^N \mid x_N>0 \}$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition with a possible singular nonlinearity $f$. In some…

We consider positive solutions to $\displaystyle -\Delta_p u=\frac{1}{u^\gamma}+f(u)$ under zero Dirichlet condition in the half space. Exploiting a prio-ri estimates and the moving plane technique, we prove that any solution is monotone…

In this paper we study nonnegative, measure valued solutions of the initial value problem for one-dimensional drift-diffusion equations when the nonlinear diffusion is governed by an increasing $C^1$ function $\beta$ with $\lim_{r\to…

We study the reaction-fractional-diffusion equation $u_t+(-\Delta)^{s} u=f(u)$ with ignition and monostable reactions $f$, and $s\in(0,1)$. We obtain the first optimal bounds on the propagation of front-like solutions in the cases where no…

A three-point monotone difference scheme is proposed for solving a one-dimensional non-stationary convection-diffusion-reaction equation with variable coefficients. The scheme is based on a parabolic spline and allows to linearly reproduce…

We will extend a recent result of B.~Choi and P.~Daskalopoulos (\cite{CD}). For any $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $m\ne\frac{n-2}{n+2}$, $\beta>0$ and $\lambda>0$, we prove the higher order expansion of the radially symmetric solution…

We study the long time behavior of solutions of the Cauchy problem for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations in one space dimension with the nonlinearity of bistable, ignition or monostable type. We prove a one-to-one relation between the…

We show that the fourth order accurate finite difference implementation of continuous finite element method with tensor product of quadratic polynomial basis is monotone thus satisfies the discrete maximum principle for solving a scalar…

We obtain a priori estimates with best constants for the solutions of the fractional fast diffusion equation $u_t+(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}u^m=0$, posed in the whole space with $0<\sigma<2$, $0<m\le 1$. The estimates are expressed in terms of…

Let X be a d-dimensional diffusion and M the running supremum of its first component. In this paper, we show that for any t > 0, the density (with respect to the d + 1-dimensional Lebesgue measure) of the pair (Mt, Xt) is a weak solution of…

Existence of specific \emph{eternal solutions} in exponential self-similar form to the following quasilinear diffusion equation with strong absorption$$\partial_t u=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^q,$$posed for…

Reaction-diffusion equations have several applications in the field of population dynamics and some of them are characterized by the presence of a factor which describes different types of food sources in a heterogeneous habitat. In this…

We consider classical solutions to $-\Delta u = f(u)$ in half-spaces, under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that any positive solution is strictly monotone increasing in the direction orthogonal to the boundary, provided…

Let $0\le u_0(x)\in L^1(\R^2)\cap L^{\infty}(\R^2)$ be such that $u_0(x) =u_0(|x|)$ for all $|x|\ge r_1$ and is monotone decreasing for all $|x|\ge r_1$ for some constant $r_1>0$ and ${ess}\inf_{\2{B}_{r_1}(0)}u_0\ge{ess}…