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We describe how a convectively unstable active field in an open flow configuration becomes absolutely unstable due to local mixing. A representation of the mixing region as those with locally enhanced effective diffusion allows us to find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-04-13 Arthur V. Straube , Arkady Pikovsky

The behaviour is investigated of solutions to a diffusion equation on the real line with nonlocal and singular reaction term, i.e., given by a Dirac source or sink at the origin. It gives a simplified representation of for example a control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Xiao Yang , Qiyao Peng , Sander C. Hille

We investigate the nonlocal behavior of passive tracer dispersion with random stopping at various sites in fluids. This kind of dispersion processes is modeled by an integral partial differential equation, i.e., an advection-diffusion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jinqiao Duan , James R. Brannan , H. Gao

In this paper, we investigate a Fisher-KPP nonlocal diffusion model incorporating the effect of advection and free boundaries, aiming to explore the propagation dynamics of the nonlocal diffusion-advection model. Considering the effects of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Chengcheng Cheng

We consider the nonlinear nonlocal beam evolution equation introduced by Woinowsky- Krieger. We study the existence and behavior of periodic solutions: these are called nonlinear modes. Some solutions only have two active modes and we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Ubertino Battisti , Elvise Berchio , Alberto Ferrero , Filippo Gazzola

We derive the solution representation for a large class of nonlocal boundary value problems for linear evolution PDEs with constant coefficients in one space variable. The prototypical such PDE is the heat equation, for which problems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Beatrice Pelloni , David A Smith

Models of reaction diffusion processes usually employ discrete lattice models with particles interacting at the same site, resulting in localized reactions in the continuum limit. Here, various non-local interactions are considered, and two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chris D Greenman

In the paper, we discuss the reconstruction of scalar parameters in a linear diffusion equation with fractional in time differential operators and with additional nonlocal (convolution) terms, which incorporate memory effects in models.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Sergii V. Siryk , Lidiia Tereshchenko , Nataliya Vasylyeva

The aim of this paper is to study a PDE model for two diffusing species interacting by local size exclusion and global attraction. This leads to a nonlinear degenerate cross-diffusion system, for which we provide a global existence result.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Judith Berendsen , Martin Burger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

In this paper, we first consider two scalar nonlocal diffusion problems with a free boundary and a fixed boundary. We obtain the global existence, uniqueness and longtime behaviour of solution of these two problems. The spreading-vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lei Li , Mingxin Wang

We deal with a nonlocal interaction equation describing the evolution of a particle density under the effect of a general symmetric pairwise interaction potential, not necessarily in convolution form. We describe the case of a convex (or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-21 José Antonio Carrillo , Stefano Lisini , Edoardo Mainini

In this paper we present a non-local numerical scheme based on the Local Discontinuous Galerkin method for a non-local diffusive partial differential equation with application to traffic flow. In this model, the velocity is determined by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 D. Do , H. Nick Zinat Matin , M. L. Delle Monache

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

The Gray-Scott model is a set of reaction-diffusion equations that describes chemical systems far from equilibrium. Interest in this model stems from its ability to generate spatio-temporal structures, including pulses, spots, stripes, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Loic Cappanera , Gabriela Jaramillo , Cory Ward

We explore the dual approach to nonlocal optimal design, specifically for a classical min-max problem which in this study is associated with a nonlocal scalar diffusion equation. We reformulate the optimal design problem utilizing a dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Anton Evgrafov , Jose C. Bellido

We develop a theory describing how a convectively unstable active field in an open flow is transformed into absolutely unstable by local mixing. Presenting the mixing region as one with a locally enhanced effective diffusion allows us to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-12-22 Arthur V. Straube , Arkady Pikovsky

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

Conventional phase-field models often drive solid-solid interfaces to coalesce when in close proximity. This feature limits their use for processes like diffusion bonding, where the interfaces might need to remain distinct under certain…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-20 Maryam Khodadad , Noel Walkington , Suresh Kalyanam , Matteo Pozzi , Kaushik Dayal

The nonlocal porous medium equation considered in this paper is a degenerate nonlinear evolution equation involving a space pseudo-differential operator of fractional order. This space-fractional equation admits an explicit, nonnegative,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Alessandro De Gregorio

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste