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We prove the existence of a family of travelling wave solutions in a variant of the $\textit{Zeldovich-Frank-Kamenetskii (ZFK) equation}$, a reaction-diffusion equation which models the propagation of planar laminar premixed flames in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Samuel Jelbart , Kristian Uldall Kristiansen , Peter Szmolyan

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Ruth E. Baker

In this paper we study the following one-dimensional reaction-diffusion problem $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^s u=f(x-c t, u) \;\:\textrm{ in } \mathbb{R}\times (0,+\infty), $$ where $s>\frac{1}{2}$, $c \in \mathbb{R}$ is a prescribed velocity, and $f$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sebastián Flores-Sepúlveda , Gabrielle Nornberg , Alexander Quaas

We consider a generalized degenerate diffusion equation with a reaction term $u_t=[A(u)]_{xx}+f(u)$, where $A$ is a smooth function satisfying $A(0)=A'(0)=0$ and $A(u),\ A'(u),\ A''(u)>0$ for $u>0$, $f$ is of monostable type in $[0,s_1]$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Fang Li , Bendong Lou

We study a family of reaction-diffusion equations that present a doubly nonlinear character given by a combination of the $p$-Laplacian and the porous medium operators. We consider the so-called slow diffusion regime, corresponding to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Yihong Du , Alejandro Garriz , Fernando Quiros

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications in biology and chemistry. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

This article is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions, including standing waves, to some models based on configurational forces, describing respectively the diffusionless phase transformations of solid materials, e.g.,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Shuichi Kawashima , Peicheng Zhu

Analysis of the speed of propagation in parabolic operators is frequently carried out considering the minimal speed at which its traveling waves move. This value depends on the solution concept being considered. We analyze an extensive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Margarita Arias , Juan Campos

In this paper, we shall establish the spreading speed and existence of traveling waves for a non-cooperative system arising from epidermal wound healing and characterize the spreading speed as the slowest speed of a family of non-constant…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-09 Haiyan Wang

We investigate spreading properties of solutions of a large class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems, including prey-predator systems as a special case. By spreading properties we mean the long time behaviour of solution fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

We consider a diffusion model with limit cycle reaction functions, in the presence of convection. We select a set of functions derived from a realistic reaction model: the Schnakenberg equations. This resultant form is unsymmetrical. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 E. H. Flach , S. Schnell , J. Norbury

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

We prove the existence of a continuous family of positive and generally non-monotone travelling fronts in delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*)$, when $g \in C^2(R_+,R_+)$ has exactly two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

We consider Kolmogorov--Petrovskii--Piscounov (KPP) type models in the presence of a discontinuous cut-off in reaction rate at concentration $u=u_c$. In Part I we examine permanent form travelling wave solutions (a companion paper, Part II,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-07 A D O Tisbury , D J Needham , A Tzella

We extend the class of initial conditions for scalar delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t (t,x)=u_{xx}(t,x)+f(u(t, x), u(t-h, x))$ which evolve in solutions converging to monostable traveling waves. Our approach allows to compute, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Abraham Solar , Sergei Trofimchuk

In this work we perform rigorous small noise expansions to study the impact of stochastic forcing on the behaviour of planar travelling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion equations on cylindrical domains. In particular, we use a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Mark van den Bosch , Christian H. S. Hamster , Hermen Jan Hupkes

The Fisher-KPP equation with general nonlinear diffusion and arbitrary kinetic orders in the reaction terms is considered. The existence of oscillatory travelling wave solutions is proved for this model. Conditions for the existence of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ariel Sánchez-Valdés , Benito Hernández-Bermejo

Reaction-diffusion equations appear in biology and chemistry, and combine linear diffusion with different kind of reaction terms. Some of them are remarkable from the mathematical point of view, since they admit families of travelling waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alessandro Audrito

In this paper, the existence of a non-trivial, positive and bounded critical traveling wave solution of a diffusive disease model, whose reaction system has infinity many equilibria, is obtained for the first time. This gives an affirmative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Jiangbo Zhou , Haimei Xu , Jingdong Wei , Liyuan Son