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Subdiffusion has been proposed as an explanation of various kinetic phenomena inside living cells. In order to fascilitate large-scale computational studies of subdiffusive chemical processes, we extend a recently suggested mesoscopic model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Emilie Blanc , Stefan Engblom , Andreas Hellander , Per Lötstedt

We develop a mesoscopic modeling framework for diffusion in a crowded environment, particularly targeting applications in the modeling of living cells. Through homogenization techniques we effectively coarse-grain a detailed microscopic…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-19 Stefan Engblom , Per Lötstedt , Lina Meinecke

We study the blow up solutions of a semilinear reaction diffusion system coupled in both equations and boundary conditions. The main purpose is to understand how the reaction terms and the absorption terms affect the blow-up properties. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Maan A. Rasheed , Miroslav Chlebik

To analyze possible generalizations of reaction-diffusion schemes for the case of subdiffusion we discuss a simple monomolecular conversion A --> B. We derive the corresponding kinetic equations for local A and B concentrations. Their form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. M. Sokolov , M. G. W. Schmidt , F. Sagues

Many reaction-diffusion models produce travelling wave solutions that can be interpreted as waves of invasion in biological scenarios such as wound healing or tumour growth. These partial differential equation models have since been adapted…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-03 Rebecca M. Crossley , Philip K. Maini , Tommaso Lorenzi , Ruth E. Baker

Extensive simulations are performed of the diffusion-limited reaction A$+$B$\to 0$ in one dimension, with initially separated reagents. The reaction rate profile, and the probability distributions of the separation and midpoint of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Stephen Cornell

By considering potential health problems that a fully covering receiver may cause in vessel-like environments, the implementation of a partially covering receiver is needed. To this end, distribution of hitting location of messenger…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Meriç Turan , Mehmet Sukru Kuran , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ilker Demirkol , Tuna Tugcu

An asymptotic limit of a class of Cahn-Hilliard systems is investigated to obtain a general nonlinear diffusion equation. The target diffusion equation may reproduce a number of well-known model equations: Stefan problem, porous media…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

The interactions between diffusing molecules and membrane-bound receptors drive numerous cellular processes. In this work, we develop a spatial model of molecular interactions with membrane receptors by homogenizing the cell membrane and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-24 Anil Cengiz , Sean D Lawley

We considered diffusion-driven processes on small-world networks with distance-dependent random links. The study of diffusion on such networks is motivated by transport on randomly folded polymer chains, synchronization problems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-05 Balazs Kozma , Matthew B. Hastings , G. Korniss

The reaction-diffusion master equation (RDME) is a lattice stochastic reaction-diffusion model that has been used to study spatially distributed cellular processes. The RDME is often interpreted as an approximation to spatially-continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Samuel A Isaacson

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

We study a reaction-diffusion system on the real line, where the reactions of the species are given by one reversible reaction according to the mass-action law. We describe different positive limits at both sides of infinity and investigate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Alexander Mielke , Stefanie Schindler

The aim of the paper is to construct and justify asymptotic approximations for solutions to quasilinear convection-diffusion problems with a predominance of nonlinear convective flow in a thin cylinder, where an inhomogeneous nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Taras Mel'nyk , Christian Rohde

We study the diffusive limit approximation for a nonlinear radiative heat transfer system that arises in the modeling of glass cooling, greenhouse effects and in astrophysics. The model is considered with the reflective radiative boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Mohamed Ghattassi , Xiaokai Huo , Nader Masmoudi

Diffusion-coagulation can be simply described by a dynamic where particles perform a random walk on a lattice and coalesce with probability unity when meeting on the same site. Such processes display non-equilibrium properties with strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Turban , J. -Y. Fortin

We study diffusive mixing in the presence of thermal fluctuations under the assumption of large Schmidt number. In this regime we obtain a limiting equation that contains a diffusive thermal drift term with diffusion coefficient obeying a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Donev , T. G. Fai , E. Vanden-Eijnden

Diffusion-mediated surface phenomena are crucial for human life and industry, with examples ranging from oxygen capture by lung alveolar surface to heterogeneous catalysis, gene regulation, membrane permeation and filtration processes.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-19 Denis S. Grebenkov

A model is developed for the transport of heat and solute in a system of double-diffusive layers under astrophysical conditions (viscosity and solute diffusivity low compared with the thermal diffusivity). The process of formation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. C. Spruit

Currently, there is no general theory for deriving diffusion approximations of queueing systems with high- or infinite-dimensional state descriptors. In this paper, we explore one path for deriving diffusion limit equations of queueing…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Eva H Loeser