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We consider Fisher-KPP-type reaction-diffusion equations with spatially inhomogeneous reaction rates. We show that a sufficiently strong localized inhomogeneity may prevent existence of transition-front-type global in time solutions while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik , Andrej Zlatos

The solution h to the Fisher-KPP equation with a steep enough initial condition develops into a front moving at velocity 2, with logarithmic corrections to its position. In this paper we investigate the value h(c t, t) of the solution ahead…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Éric Brunet

We consider a family of exact solutions to a nonlinear reaction-diffusion model, constructed using nonclassical symmetry analysis. In a particular limit, the mathematical model approaches the well-known Fisher-KPP model, which means that it…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-02-21 Scott W McCue , Bronwyn H Bradshaw-Hajek , Matthew J Simpson

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the large-time behavior of solutions of one-dimensional Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations. The initial conditions are assumed to be globally front-like and to decay at infinity towards the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

The Fisher-KPP equation is a reaction-diffusion equation originally proposed by Fisher to represent allele propagation in genetic hosts or population. It was also proposed by Kolmogorov for more general applications. A novel method for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Luisiana Cundin

We consider the Fisher-KPP equation with a non-local interaction term. We establish a condition on the interaction that allows for existence of non-constant periodic solutions, and prove uniform upper bounds for the solutions of the Cauchy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Francois Hamel , Lenya Ryzhik

We study nonlinear stability of pulled fronts in scalar parabolic equations on the real line of arbitrary order, under conceptual assumptions on existence and spectral stability of fronts. In this general setting, we establish sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Montie Avery , Arnd Scheel

This paper establishes the spectral stability in exponentially weighted spaces of smooth traveling monotone fronts for reaction diffusion equations of Fisher-KPP type with nonlinear degenerate diffusion coefficient. It is assumed that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-02 J. Francisco Leyva , Ramon G. Plaza

In this paper we analyse the asymptotic behaviour of some nonlocal diffusion problems with local reaction term in general metric measure spaces. We find certain classes of nonlinear terms, including logistic type terms, for which solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Aníbal Rodríguez-Bernal , Silvia Sastre-Gomez

In this paper, we treat the Fisher-KPP equation with a Caputo-type time fractional derivative and discuss the propagation speed of the solution. The equation is a mathematical model that describes the processes of sub-diffusion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Hiroshi Ishii

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts of nonlocal Fisher-KPP equations in time heterogeneous media. We first construct transition fronts with prescribed interface location functions, which are natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We study the radially symmetric high dimensional Fisher-KPP nonlocal diffusion equation with free boundary, and reveal some fundamental differences from its one dimensional version considered in \cite{cdjfa} recently. Technically, this high…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Yihong Du , Wenjie Ni

The aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fisher-KPP equation with nonlocal diffusion. In specific we prove the existence of a critical speed so that traveling front type solutions exist up to this critical speed and non-existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 José Fuentealba , Alexander Quaas

The propagation of fronts in the Fisher-Kolmogorov equation with spatially varying diffusion coefficients is studied. Using coordinate changes, WKB approximations, and multiple scales analysis, we provide an analytic framework that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Christopher W. Curtis , David M. Bortz

In this paper we focus on strong solutions of some heat-like problems with a non-local derivative in time induced by a Bernstein function and an elliptic operator given by the generator or the Fokker-Planck operator of a Pearson diffusion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Giacomo Ascione , Nikolai Leonenko , Enrica Pirozzi

We introduce a fractional Kramers equation for a particle interacting with a thermal heat bath and external non-linear force field. For the force free case the velocity damping follows the Mittag-Leffler relaxation and the diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Barkai , R. Silbey

We study the existence of stationary solutions for a nonlocal version of the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) equation. The main motivation is a recent study by Berestycki et {al.} [Nonlinearity 22 (2009), {pp.}~2813--2844]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

We provide the first PDE proof of the celebrated Bramson's $o(1)$ results in 1983 concerning the large time asymptotics for the KPP equation under front-like initial data of types $x^{k+1}e^{-\lambda_*x}$ and $x^{\boldsymbol{\nu}}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Mingmin Zhang

Strang splitting is a widely used second-order method for solving diffusion-reaction problems. However, its convergence order is often reduced to order $1$ for Dirichlet boundary conditions and to order $1.5$ for Neumann and Robin boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Thi Tam Dang , Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann

We consider a space-inhomogeneous Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov (KPP) equation with a nonlocal diffusion and an almost-periodic nonlinearity. By employing and adapting the theory of homogenization, we show that solutions of this equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Yan Zhang