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The determination of the speed of travelling fronts of the scalar reaction diffusion equation has been the subject of much study. Using different approaches seemingly disconnected variational principles have been established. The purpose of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-10 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

We introduce a model of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations to describe the dynamics and propagation of flame fronts in random media. The model incorporates heat diffusion, its dissipation, and its production through coupling to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 N. Provatas , T. Ala-Nissila , M. Grant , K. R. Elder , L. Piché

The diffusion equation and its time-fractional counterpart can be obtained via the diffusion limit of continuous-time random walks with exponential and heavy-tailed waiting time distributions. The space dependent variable-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang , Zhuang Xu

Using pointwise semigroup techniques, we establish sharp rates of decay in space and time of a perturbed reaction diffusion front to its time-asymptotic limit. This recovers results of Sattinger, Henry and others of time-exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Yingwei Li

We consider positive travelling fronts of the time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation with the monostable birth function. Our main result says that for every fixed and sufficiently large velocity c, the positive travelling front is unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-03 Maitere Aguerrea , Sergei Trofimchuk , Gabriel Valenzuela

We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for a general Fisher-Burgers equation with nonlinear and possibly density-dependent diffusion. Such a model arises, for instance, in physical phenomena where a saturation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Maurizion Garrione , Marta Strani

We consider a two-species reaction-diffusion system in one space dimension that is derived from an epidemiological model in a spatially periodic environment with two types of pathogens: the wild type and the mutant. The system is of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Quentin Griette , Hiroshi Matano

We study the speed of propagation of fronts for the scalar reaction-diffusion equation $u_t = u_{xx} + f(u)$\, with $f(0) = f(1) = 0$. We give a new integral variational principle for the speed of the fronts joining the state $u=1$ to…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

We analyze spreading of a density front in the K\"untz-Lavall\'ee model of porous media. In contrast to previous studies, where unusual properties of the front were attributed to anomalous diffusion, we find that the front evolution is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maciej Matyka , Zbigniew Koza

Many reaction-diffusion systems in various applications exhibit traveling wave solutions that evolve on multiple spatio-temporal scales. These traveling wave solutions are crucial for understanding the underlying dynamics of the system. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Jiaxi Gu , Daniel Olmos-Liceaga , Jae-Hun Jung

In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion system describing the propagation of flames under the assumption of ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order. It was shown in [3] that this system admits a traveling front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Amanda Matson , Claude-Michel Brauner , Peter V. Gordon

The aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fisher-KPP equation with nonlocal diffusion. In specific we prove the existence of a critical speed so that traveling front type solutions exist up to this critical speed and non-existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 José Fuentealba , Alexander Quaas

We introduce a speed selection mechanism for front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems with multiple fields. This mechanism applies to pulled and pushed fronts alike, and operates by restricting the fields to large "finite" intervals…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Stavros Theodorakis , Epameinondas Leontidis

We investigate wavefront solutions in a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t = n_{xx} - nb, \quad b_t = [D nbb_x]_x + nb,\] where $t\geq0,$ $x\in\mathbb{R}$, and $D$ is a positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Luisa Malaguti , Elisa Sovrano

A wave front of Fisher and Kolmogorov, Petrovskii, and Piskunov type involving two species A and B with different diffusion coefficients $D_A$ and $D_B$ is studied using a master equation approach in dilute and concentrated solutions.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-26 Gabriel Morgado , Bogdan Nowakowski , Annie Lemarchand

In this paper, we study some parameter-dependent reaction-diffusion models governed by the Born-Infeld (or Minkowski) operator. In dependence on two parameters $a, b > 0$, related to the field strength and to the diffusivity, we investigate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Maurizio Garrione

The interface separating a liquid from its vapor phase is diffuse: the composition varies continuously from one phase to the other over a finite length. Recent experiments on dynamic jamming fronts in two dimensions [Waitukaitis et al.,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Jikai Wang , J. M. Schwarz , Joseph D. Paulsen

Models of diffusive processes that occur on evolving domains are frequently employed to describe biological and physical phenomena, such as diffusion within expanding tissues or substrates. Previous investigations into these models either…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-09 Stuart T. Johnston , Matthew J. Simpson

In this paper, the one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with the fractional derivative of order $1 \le \alpha \le 2$ is revisited. This equation interpolates between the diffusion and the wave equations that behave quite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Yuri Luchko , Francesco Mainardi , Yuriy Povstenko

We study the front propagation in Reaction-Diffusion systems whose reaction dynamics exhibits an unstable fixed point and chaotic or noisy behaviour. We have examined the influence of chaos and noise on the front propagation speed and on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Torcini , Angelo Vulpiani , Andrea Rocco