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We consider a one-dimensional system arising from a chemotaxis model in tumour angiogenesis, which is described by a Keller-Segel equation with singular sensitivity. This hyperbolic-parabolic system is known to allow viscous shocks…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Kyudong Choi , Moon-Jin Kang , Alexis Vasseur

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 Cauchy problem for general, nonlinear, strictly hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations in one space variable. First, we re-visit the construction of the solution to the Riemann problem and introduce the notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Olivier Glass , Philippe G. LeFloch

A well-known optimal velocity (OV) model describes vehicle motion along a single lane road, which reduces to a perturbed modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation within the unstable regime. Steady travelling wave solutions to this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Laura Hattam

The Fisher-KPP model, and generalisations thereof, is a simple reaction-diffusion models of biological invasion that assumes individuals in the population undergo linear diffusion with diffusivity $D$, and logistic proliferation with rate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-25 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

In this paper we study solitary traveling wave solutions to a damped shallow water system, which is in general quasilinear and of mixed type. We develop a small data well-posedness theory and prove that traveling wave solutions are a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

We consider a hyperbolic-parabolic system arising from a chemotaxis model in angiogenesis, which is described by a Keller-Segel equation with singular sensitivity. It is known to allow viscous shocks (so-called traveling waves). We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Kyudong Choi , Moon-Jin Kang , Young-Sam Kwon , Alexis Vasseur

This paper is concerned with a model for the dynamics of a single species in a one-dimensional heterogeneous environment. The environment consists of two kinds of patches, which are periodically alternately arranged along the spatial axis.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-04 François Hamel , Frithjof Lutscher , Mingmin Zhang

We consider an evolution equation of parabolic type in R having a travelling wave solution. We perform an appropriate change of variables which transforms the equation into a non local evolution one having a travelling wave solution with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jose M. Arrieta , Maria Lopez-Fernandez , Enrique Zuazua

We consider an epidemic model with direct transmission given by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations and study the existence of traveling wave solutions. When the basic reproductive number of the considered model is less…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Dawit Denu , Sedar Ngoma , Rachidi B. Salako

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions near monotonic shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Euler equations in a finite channel. For any small $\tau>0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Qi Zhao , Weiren Zhao

Sufficient conditions for either existence or non-existence of traveling wave solutions for a general quasi-linear reaction-diffusion-convection equation, possibly highly degenerate or singular, with discontinuous coefficients are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Umberto Guarnotta , Cristina Marcelli

Flux-limited Keller-Segel (FLKS) model has been recently derived from kinetic transport models for bacterial chemotaxis and shown to represent better the collective movement observed experimentally. Recently, associated to the kinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Vincent Calvez , Benoît Perthame , Shugo Yasuda

This paper deals with the dead-water phenomenon, which occurs when a ship sails in a stratified fluid, and experiences an important drag due to waves below the surface. More generally, we study the generation of internal waves by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Vincent Duchene

The traveling wave with the peaked profile arises in the limit of the family of traveling waves with the smooth profiles. We study the linear and nonlinear stability of the peaked traveling wave by using a local model for shallow water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Fábio Natali , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Shuoyang Wang

We study linear stability of planar travelling waves for a scalar reaction-diffusion equation with non-linear anisotropic diffusion. The mathematical model is derived from the full thermo-hydrodynamical model describing the process of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Léonard Monsaingeon

Solutions of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation on a non-globally hyperbolic spacetime, which contains closed timelike curves (time machines) are considered. It is proved, that there exists a solution of the Cauchy problem, it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Ya. Arefeva , T. Ishiwatari , I. V. Volovich

This paper is devoted to study the wave propagation and its stability for a class of two-component discrete diffusive systems. We first establish the existence of positive monotone monostable traveling wave fronts. Then, applying the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhixian Yu , Yuji Wan , Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

We prove the existence and uniqueness, for wave speeds sufficiently large, of monotone traveling wave solutions connecting stable to unstable spatial equilibria for a class of $N$-dimensional lattice differential equations with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Aaron Hoffman , Benjamin Kennedy

We consider a system of two coupled parabolic PDEs introduced in [1] to model motility of eukaryotic cells. We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions in the limit of a small parameter related to the width of the interface in phase field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Leonid Berlyand , Mykhailo Potomkin , Volodymyr Rybalko