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We study an incompressible Darcy's free boundary problem, recently introduced in [22]. Our goal is to prove the existence of non-trivial traveling wave solutions and thus validate the interest of this model to describe cell motility. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Thomas Alazard , Martina Magliocca , Nicolas Meunier

Using spatial domain techniques developed by the authors and Myunghyun Oh in the context of parabolic conservation laws, we establish under a natural set of spectral stability conditions nonlinear asymptotic stability with decay at Gaussian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

Spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations typically admit pulsating waves which describe the transition from one steady state to another. Due to the heterogeneity, in general such an equation is not invariant by rotation and therefore…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Weiwei Ding , Thomas Giletti

Single-species reaction-diffusion equations, such as the Fisher-KPP and Porous-Fisher equations, support travelling wave solutions that are often interpreted as simple mathematical models of biological invasion. Such travelling wave…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-04 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

We analyse a novel mathematical model of malignant invasion which takes the form of a two-phase moving boundary problem describing the invasion of a population of malignant cells into a population of background tissue, such as skin. Cells…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-04 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

This paper deals with front propagation dynamics of monostable equations with nonlocal dispersal in spatially periodic habitats. In the authors' earlier works, it is shown that a general spatially periodic monostable equation with nonlocal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Wenxian Shen , Aijun Zhang

Reaction-diffusion models are often used to describe biological invasion, where populations of individuals that undergo random motility and proliferation lead to moving fronts. Many models of biological invasion are extensions of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Matthew J Simpson , Nizhum Rahman , Alexander KY Tam

We propose a novel method for establishing the convergence rates of solutions to reaction-diffusion equations to traveling waves. The analysis is based on the study of the traveling wave shape defect function introduced in [2]. It turns out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a one-dimensional Stefan Problem for reflected SPDEs which are driven by space-time white noise. The solutions are shown to exist until almost surely positive blow-up times. Such…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Ben Hambly , Jasdeep Kalsi

We study the existence and nonexistence of traveling waves of general diffusive Kermack-McKendrick SIR models with standard incidence where the total population is not constant. The three classes, susceptible $S$, infected $I$ and removed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Haiyan Wang , Xiang-Sheng Wang

We investigate the stability and nonlinear local dynamics of spectrally stable wave trains in reaction-diffusion systems. For each $N\in\mathbb{N}$, such $T$-periodic traveling waves are easily seen to be nonlinearly asymptotically stable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Mathew A. Johnson , Wesley R. Perkins

In Part II of this series of papers, we consider an initial-boundary value problem for the Kolmogorov--Petrovskii--Piscounov (KPP) type equation with a discontinuous cut-off in the reaction function at concentration $u=u_c$. For fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-08 A. D. O. Tisbury , D. J. Needham , A. Tzella

This paper is concerned with the existence of pulsating traveling fronts for the equation: $\partial_t u - \nabla \cdot (A(t, x)\nabla u) + q(t, x) \cdot \nabla u = f (t, x, u)$, (1) where the diffusion matrix $A$, the advection term $q$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Grégoire Nadin

The paper is devoted to a reaction-diffusion equation with delay arising in modelling the immune response. We prove the existence of travelling waves in the bistable case using the Leray-Schauder method. In difference with the previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Sergei Trofimchuk , Vitaly Volpert

We consider a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-Kolmogoroff-Petrovsky-Piscounoff type. We investigate the effect of the interaction between the nonlinear diffusion coefficient and the reaction term on the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Pavel Drabek , Peter Takac

For certain values of the wave speed parameter, evolution equations for the temperature of a region of fuel admit traveling wave solutions describing fire fronts. We consider such a system in the form of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Olivia Chandrasekhar , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Blake Barker , Rodman Linn

A multiscale analysis of 1D stochastic bistable reaction-diffusion equations with additive noise is carried out w.r.t. travelling waves within the variational approach to stochastic partial differential equations. It is shown with explicit…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Jennifer Krüger , Wilhelm Stannat

In this paper we focus on a discrete physical model describing granular crystals, whose equations of motion can be described by a system of differential difference equations (DDEs). After revisiting earlier continuum approximations, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-08 Su Yang , Gino Biondini , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In traffic flow, self-organized wave propagation, which characterizes congestion, has been reproduced in macroscopic and microscopic models. Hydrodynamic models, a subset of macroscopic models, can be derived from microscopic-level…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kota Ikeda , Toru Kan , Toshiyuki Ogawa

We study travelling wave solutions of a generalised Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation with a non-local diffusion term and a concave-convex flux. This model equation arises in the analysis of a shallow water flow by performing formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-05 F. Achleitner , C. M. Cuesta , X. Diez-Izagirre