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In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

Continuing our previous study \cite{DJKZ} on the monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equation, we analyze the bistable case under weak regularity assumptions. Our approach applies monostable results on the subintervals where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

We consider a single component reaction-diffusion equation in one dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. Our main result shows the existence, uniqueness (up to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

We consider the evolution of open planar curves by the steepest descent flow of a geometric functional, under different boundary conditions. We prove that, if any set of stationary solutions with fixed energy is finite, then a solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Matteo Novaga , Shinya Okabe

We study multiplicity of the supercritical traveling front solutions for scalar reaction-diffusion equations in infinite cylinders which invade a linearly unstable equilibrium. These equations are known to possess traveling wave solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-24 P. V. Gordon , C. B. Muratov , M. Novaga

We prove the existence of a traveling wave solution for a boundary reaction diffusion equation when the reaction term is the combustion nonlinearity with ignition temperature. A key role in the proof is plaid by an explicit formula for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-25 L. Caffarelli , A. Mellet , Y. Sire

We consider reaction-diffusion fronts in spatially periodic bistable media with large periods. Whereas the homogenization regime associated with small periods had been well studied for bistable or Fisher-KPP reactions and, in the latter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Weiwei Ding , François Hamel , Xing Liang

We consider a system of reaction-diffusion equations in a bounded interval of the real line, with emphasis on the metastable dynamics, whereby the time-dependent solution approaches the steady state in an asymptotically exponentially long…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Marta Strani

We consider a discrete version of reaction-diffusion equations. A typical example is the fully overdamped Frenkel-Kontorova model, where the velocity is proportional to the force. We also introduce an additional exterior force denoted by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 M. Al Haj , R. Monneau

We focus on open questions regarding the uniqueness of distributional solutions of the fast diffusion equation (FDE) with a given source term. When the source is sufficiently smooth, the uniqueness follows from standard results. Assuming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Marek Fila , Petra Macková

The large time behaviour of nonnegative solutions to a quasilinear degenerate diffusion equation with a source term depending solely on the gradient is investigated. After a suitable rescaling of time, convergence to a unique profile is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Philippe Laurencot , Christian Stinner

We consider solvability of the generalized reaction-diffusion equation with both space- and time-dependent diffusion and reaction terms by means of the similarity method. By introducing the similarity variable, the reaction-diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 C. -L. Ho , C. -C. Lee

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

We investigate numerically the blocking of two-dimensional bistable reaction diffusion fronts by geometric obstacles. Our goal is to derive quantitative criteria for front propagation in the presence of spatial heterogeneities. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , J. Gatlik , B. Sarels

We give an explicit formula for the change of speed of pushed and bistable fronts of the reaction diffusion equation when a small cutoff is applied at the unstable or metastable equilibrium point. The results are valid for arbitrary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier , V. Haikala

We prove existence and uniqueness of travelling waves for a reaction-diffusion system coupling a classical reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a diffusion equation on a line. To do this we use a continuation method which leads to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Laurent Dietrich

We consider a scalar parabolic equation in one spatial dimension. The equation is constituted by a convective term, a reaction term with one or two equilibria, and a positive diffusivity which can however vanish. We prove the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We study finite-time singularities in the linear advection-diffusion equation with a variable speed on a semi-infinite line. The variable speed is determined by an additional condition at the boundary, which models the dynamics of a contact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-07 D. E. Pelinovsky , A. R. Giniyatullin

The purpose of this article is to investigate the emergence of cross-diffusion in the time evolution of two slow-fast species in competition. A class of triangular cross-diffusion system is obtained as the singular limit of a fast…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Elisabetta Brocchieri , Lucilla Corrias

We are concerned with travelling wave solutions arising in a reaction diffusion equation with bistable and nonlocal nonlinearity, for which the comparison principle does not hold. Stability of the equilibrium $u\equiv 1$ is not assumed. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Matthieu Alfaro , Jerome Coville , Gael Raoul