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We analyze travelling wave (TW) solutions for nonlinear systems consisting of an ODE coupled to a degenerate PDE with a diffusion coefficient that vanishes as the solution tends to zero and blows up as it approaches its maximum value.…

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In this work, we study the nonlinear traveling waves in density stratified fluids with depth varying shear currents. Beginning the formulation of the water-wave problem due to [1], we extend the work of [4] and [18] to examine the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. L. Oliveras , C. W. Curtis

This paper is concerned with a lattice dynamical system modeling the evolution of susceptible and infective individuals at discrete niches. We prove the existence of traveling waves connecting the disease-free state to non-trivial leftover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yan-Yu Chen , Jong-Shenq Guo , Francois Hamel

We present a study of sound wave propagation in a time dependent random medium and an application to imaging. The medium is modeled by small temporal and spatial random fluctuations in the wave speed and density, and it moves due to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

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

Existence of non-negative weak solutions is shown for a full curvature thin-film model of a liquid thin film flowing down a vertical fibre. The proof is based on the application of a priori estimates derived for energy-entropy functionals.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Hangjie Ji , Roman Taranets , Marina Chugunova

In this note, we investigate a doubly nonlinear diffusion equation in the slow diffusion regime. We prove stability of the pressure of solutions that are close to traveling wave solutions in a homogeneous Lipschitz sense. We derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Christian Seis , Dominik Winkler

This paper focuses on traveling wave solutions for the so-called Rosenzweig-MacArthur model with spatial diffusion. The main results of this note are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of traveling wave solution as well as periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Arnaud Ducrot , Zhihua Liu , Pierre Magal

We consider solutions of a scalar reaction-diffusion equation of the ignition type with a random, stationary and ergodic reaction rate. We show that solutions of the Cauchy problem spread with a deterministic rate in the long time limit. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-10 James Nolen , Lenya Ryzhik

We study the existence of traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems with delays in both diffusion and reaction terms of the form $\partial u(x,t)/\partial t = \Delta u(x,t-\tau_1)+f(u(x,t),u(x,t-\tau_2))$, where $\tau_1,\tau_2$ are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-23 William Barker , Nguyen Van Minh

Traveling wave solutions, in the form $u(x,t)=f(x+ct)$, to the generalized Burgers-Fisher equation $$ \partial_tu=u_{xx}+k(u^n)_x+u^p-u^q, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}\times(0,\infty), $$ with $n\geq2$, $p>q\geq1$ and $k>0$, are classified with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Ariel Sánchez

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

In this paper, we systematically study the existence, asymptotic behaviors, uniqueness, and nonlinear orbital stability of traveling-wave solutions with small propagation speeds for the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equation.…

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We consider a free boundary model of epithelial cell migration with logistic growth and nonlinear diffusion induced by mechanical interactions. Using numerical simulations, phase plane and perturbation analysis, we find and analyse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-05 Ryan J Murphy , Pascal R Buenzli , Ruth E Baker , Matthew J Simpson

The propagation of a chemical wave in a narrow, cone-shaped glass capillary was investigated. When a chemical wave propagates from the wider end to the narrower end, it slows, stops, and then disappears. A phenomenological model that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Kitahata , Ryoichi Aihara , Yoshihito Mori , Kenichi Yoshikawa

In this note we consider degenerate chemotaxis systems with porous media type diffusion and a source term satisfying the Hadamard growth condition. We prove the H\"older regularity for bounded solutions to parabolic-parabolic as well as for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 M. Marras , F. Ragnedda , S. Vernier-Piro , V. Vespri

We study traveling wave solutions of the following chemotaxis systems,$$\begin{cases}u_t=\Delta u-\chi_1\nabla(u\nabla v_1)+\chi_2\nabla(u\nabla v_2)+u(a-bu),\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N\\ 0=\Delta v_1-\lambda_1v_1+\mu_1u,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

In this paper we present a Keller--Segel model with logistic growth dynamics arising in the study of chemotactic pattern formation. We prove the existence of a minimum wave speed for which the model exhibits nonnegative travelling wave…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Jason J. Bramburger

In this paper we study the Painlev\'e analysis for two models of chemotaxis. We find that in some cases the reductions of these models in terms of travelling wave variable allow exact analytical solutions.

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We study single cell E.coli chemotaxis in a spatio-temporally varying attractant environment. Modeling the attractant concentration in the form of a traveling sine wave, we measure in our simulations, the chemotactic drift velocity of the…

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