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Long simulation times in climate sciences typically require coarse grids due to computational constraints. Nonetheless, unresolved subscale information significantly influences the prognostic variables and can not be neglected for reliable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Konrad Simon , Jörn Behrens

Cell-cell adhesion plays a vital role in the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. One of its functions is regulation of cell migration, such as occurs, e.g. during embryogenesis or in cancer. In this work, we develop a…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-08 Anna Zhigun , Mabel Lizzy Rajendran

The evolution of the interface separating a conduit of light, viscous fluid rising buoyantly through a heavy, more viscous, exterior fluid at small Reynolds numbers is governed by the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion. Previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

Animals use various processes to inform themselves about their environment and make decisions about how to move and form their territory. In some cases, populations inform themselves of competing groups through observations at distances,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-17 Erin Ellefsen , Nancy Rodriguez

When a fluid carrying a passive solute flows quickly through porous media, three key macroscale transport mechanisms occur. These mechanisms are diffusion, advection and dispersion, all of which depend on the microstructure of the porous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-16 Lucy C Auton , Mohit P. Dalwadi , Ian M. Griffiths

In this work, we consider a certain multilayered (thick layer) wave--(thin layer) wave--heat (fluid) interactive PDE system. Such coupled PDE systems have been used in the literature to describe the blood transport process in mammalian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-13 George Avalos , Pelin G. Geredeli , Boris Muha

The effective, fast transport of matter through porous media is often characterized by complex dispersion effects. To describe in mathematical terms such situations, instead of a simple macroscopic equation (as in the classical Darcy's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Surendra Nepal , Vishnu Raveendran , Michael Eden , Rainey Lyons , Adrian Muntean

We provide a review of recent advancements in nonlocal continuous models for migration, mainly from the perspective of its involvement in embryonal development and cancer invasion. Particular emphasis is placed on spatial nonlocality…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Li Chen , Kevin Painter , Christina Surulescu , Anna Zhigun

Spatial reaction-diffusion models have been employed to describe many emergent phenomena in biological systems. The modelling technique most commonly adopted in the literature implements systems of partial differential equations (PDEs),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-05 Christian A. Yates , Mark B. Flegg

Multiple time scales problems are investigated by combining geometrical and analytical approaches. More precisely, for fast-slow reaction-diffusion systems, we first prove the existence of slow manifolds for the abstract problem under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Laurent Desvillettes , Christian Kuehn , Jan-Eric Sulzbach , Bao Quoc Tang , Bao-Ngoc Tran

Pattern formation often occurs in confined systems, yet how boundaries shape patterning dynamics is unclear. We develop techniques to analyze confinement effects in nonlocal advection-diffusion equations, which generically capture the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-11 Jan Rombouts , Michael L Zhao , Alexander Aulehla , Anna Erzberger

Mathematical models of biological populations commonly use discrete structure classes to capture trait variation among individuals (e.g. age, size, phenotype, intracellular state). Upscaling these discrete models into continuum descriptions…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Eleonora Agostinelli , Keith L. Chambers , Helen M. Byrne , Mohit P. Dalwadi

Flocking refers to collective behavior of a large number of interacting entities, where the interactions between discrete individuals produce collective motion on the large scale. We employ an agent-based model to describe the microscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Zhiping Mao , Zhen Li , George Em Karniadakis

This work introduces a new class of cross-diffusion systems for studying overcrowding dispersal of two species. The approach, based on proximal minimization energy through a minimum flow process, offers a potential generalization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Noureddine Igbida

For some spatially nonlocal diffusion models with a finite range of nonlocal interactions measured by a positive parameter $\delta$, we review their formulation defined on a bounded domain subject to various conditions that correspond to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Qiang Du , Xiaochuan Tian , Zhi Zhou

In this paper, we propose a new mathematical model nonlinear reaction-diffusion PDE's describing the dynamics of propagation of cancer. Here the mixed problem for the proposed PDE's is investigated and by applying obtained results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Kamal N. Soltanov

In this short note we consider a nonlinear and spatially nonlocal PDE modelling moisture evolution in a porous medium. We then show that it naturally arises as a description of superdiffusive jump phenomenon occurring in the medium. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-23 Łukasz Płociniczak

Periodic forcing of flow in compressible porous media is an important driver for solute dispersion and mixing in geological and engineered porous media subject for example to tides, pumping and recharge cycles, or fluid injection and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Satoshi Tajima , Marco Dentz

Nonlocality is important in realistic mathematical models of physical and biological systems when local models fail to capture the essential dynamics and interactions that occur over a range of distances. This review illustrates different…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-14 Swadesh Pal , Roderick Melnik

The study of interactions between biomimetic membranes and micron-sized particles is crucial for understanding various biological processes. Here, we control microparticle spontaneous engulfment by giant lipid vesicles by tuning particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-22 Clément Marque , Gaetano D'Avino , Domenico Larobina , Aude Michel , Ali Abou-Hassan , Antonio Stocco