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We consider a family of controlled reaction-diffusion equations, describing the spatial spreading of an invasive biological species. For a given propagation speed $c\in{I\!\!R}$, we seek a control with minimum cost, which achieves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Alberto Bressan , Minyan Zhang

We consider solutions of a scalar reaction-diffusion equation of the ignition type with a random, stationary and ergodic reaction rate. We show that solutions of the Cauchy problem spread with a deterministic rate in the long time limit. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-10 James Nolen , Lenya Ryzhik

We construct the traveling wave solutions of an FKPP growth process of two densities of particles, and prove that the critical traveling waves are locally stable in a space where the perturbations can grow exponentially at the back of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Florian Kreten

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

Epidemic spreading often occurs in spatially heterogeneous environments, yet how quenched heterogeneity reshapes its onset and critical dynamics remains poorly understood. The diffusive epidemic process, a minimal reaction-diffusion model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Valentin Anfray , Hong-Yan Shih

We study an incompressible Darcy's free boundary problem, recently introduced in [22]. Our goal is to prove the existence of non-trivial traveling wave solutions and thus validate the interest of this model to describe cell motility. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Thomas Alazard , Martina Magliocca , Nicolas Meunier

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves of delayed reaction-diffusion systems where the reaction function possesses the mixed quasimonotonicity property. By the so-called monotone iteration scheme and Schauder's fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-21 Canrong Tian , Zhigui Lin

In this work, we first prove a stability theorem for traveling waves in a class of non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems with nonlocal dispersal of equal diffusivities. Our stability criterion is in the sense that the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Jong-Shenq Guo , Masahiko Shimojo

Lucas and Moll have proposed a system of forward-backward partial differential equations that model knowledge diffusion and economic growth. It arises from a microscopic model of learning for a mean-field type interacting system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 George Papanicolaou , Lenya Ryzhik , Katerina Velcheva

We study a reaction-diffusion system of partial differential equations, which can be taken to be a basic model for criminal activity. We show that the assumption of a populations natural tendency towards crime significantly changes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Henri Berestycki , Nancy Rodriguez , Lenya Ryzhik

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

We follow up an earlier work (briefly reviewed below) to investigate the temporal stability of an exact travelling front solution, constructed in the form of an integral expression, for a one-dimensional discrete Nagumo-like model without…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Priyadarshi Majudar , Avijit Lahiri

The current paper is devoted to the investigation of wave propagation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations with ignition type nonlinearity in time heterogeneous and random media. It is proven that such equations in time heterogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

The critical behavior of the non-diffusive susceptible-infected-recovered model on lattices had been well established in virtue of its duality symmetry. By performing simulations and scaling analyses for the diffusive variant on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-23 Shengfeng Deng , Géza Ódor

We investigate spreading properties of solutions of a large class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems, including prey-predator systems as a special case. By spreading properties we mean the long time behaviour of solution fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

We study travelling-wave solutions for a reaction-diffusion system arising as a model for host-tissue degradation by bacteria. This system consists of a parabolic equation coupled with an ordinary differential equation. For large values of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Danielle Hilhorst , John R. King , Matthias Röger

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

A unified geometric approach for the stability analysis of traveling pulse solutions for reaction-diffusion equations with skew-gradient structure has been established in a previous paper [9], but essentially no results have been found in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Qin Xing

In this article, we are interested in a non-monotone system of logistic reaction-diffusion equations. This system of equations models an epidemics where two types of pathogens are competing, and a mutation can change one type into the other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Quentin Griette , Gaël Raoul