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We consider a controlled reaction-diffusion equation, motivated by a pest eradication problem. Our goal is to derive a simpler model, describing the controlled evolution of a contaminated set. In this direction, the first part of the paper…
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Optimal Dirichlet boundary control for a fractional/normal evolution with a final observation is considered. The unique existence of the solution and the first-order optimality condition of the optimal control problem are derived. The…
We study general quadratic reaction-diffusion systems with detailed balance, in space dimension $d \leq 4$. We show that close-to-equilibrium solutions (in an $L^2$ sense) are regular for all times, and that they relax to equilibrium…
This article proposes a highly accurate and conservative method for hyperbolic systems using the finite volume approach. This innovative scheme constructs the intermediate states at the interfaces of the control volumes using the method of…
This paper deals with the investigation of the solution of an unified fractional reaction-diffusion equation associated with the Caputo derivative as the time-derivative and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative as the space-derivative. The…
We consider a reaction-diffusion system where some components react and diffuse on the boundary of a region, while other components diffuse in the interior and react with those on the boundary through mass transport. We establish criteria…
We consider a single-species diffusion-limited annihilation reaction with reactants confined to a two-dimensional surface with one arbitrarily large dimension and the other comparable in size to interparticle distances. This situation could…
This paper deals with the solution of unified fractional reaction-diffusion systems. The results are obtained in compact and elegant forms in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions and generalized Mittag-Leffler functions, which are suitable for…
Convection-diffusion-reaction equations are a class of second-order partial differential equations widely used to model phenomena involving the change of concentration/population of one or more substances/species distributed in space.…
When applying the finite-differences method to numerically solve the one-dimensional diffusion equation, one must choose discretization steps $\Delta x$, $\Delta t$ in space and time, respectively. By applying large-deviation theory on the…
We present in this work a very short proof for the existence, uniqueness and smoothness in dimensions $d\leq 3$ of the system of reaction diffusion $ \partial\_t a\_i - d\_i \Delta a\_i = (-1)^i (a\_1 a\_3 - a\_2 a\_4)$, where $a\_i \geq 0$…
In this paper, we present a numerical approach to solve the McKean-Vlasov equations, which are distribution-dependent stochastic differential equations, under some non-globally Lipschitz conditions for both the drift and diffusion…
We investigate three different methods to tackle the problem of diffusion-limited reactions (annihilation) of hard-core classical particles in one dimension. We first extend an approach devised by Lushnikov and calculate for a single…
We study analytically and numerically a bistable reaction-diffusion equation on an arbitrary finite network. We prove that stable fixed points (multi-fronts) exist for any configuration as long as the diffusion is small. We also study fold…
We consider self-similar approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems in one space dimension with Riemann initial data and general diffusion matrix. We assume that the matrix of the system is strictly hyperbolic and the diffusion matrix…
We provide, in a general setting, explicit solutions for optimal stopping problems that involve diffusion process and its running maximum. Our approach is to use the excursion theory for Levy processes. Since general diffusions are, in…
Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to describe a variety of phenomena such as pattern formation and front propagation in biological, chemical and physical systems. In the one-dimensional model with a balanced bistable reaction…
This work is motivated by the need to study the impact of data uncertainties and material imperfections on the solution to optimal control problems constrained by partial differential equations. We consider a pathwise optimal control…