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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

Reaction-diffusion systems have been primary tools for studying pattern formation. A skew-gradient system is well known to encompass a class of activator-inhibitor type reaction-diffusion systems that exhibit localized patterns such as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Yung-Sze Choi , Jieun Lee

The FitzHugh-Nagumo equations are known to admit traveling front solutions in one spatial dimension that are nonlinearly stable. This paper concerns the stability of traveling front solutions propagating on cylindrical surfaces. It is shown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Afroditi Talidou

The Maslov index is a powerful tool for assessing the stability of solitary waves. Although it is difficult to calculate in general, a framework for doing so was recently established for singularly perturbed systems. In this paper, we apply…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Paul Cornwell , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Claire Kiers

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

Patterns and waves are basic and important phenomena that govern the dynamics of physical and biological systems. A common theme in investigating such systems is to identify the intrinsic factors responsible for such self-organization. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Chao-Nien Chen , Y. S. Choi , Nicola Fusco

We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable travelling wave solutions to the deterministic system retain their orbital stability if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 C. H. S. Hamster , H. J. Hupkes

In this paper we investigate stability of travelling wave solutions to a class of reaction-diffusion equations perturbed by infinite-dimensional additive noise with H\"older continuous paths, covering in particular fractional Brownian…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Amjad Saef , Wilhelm Stannat

When solitary waves are characterized as homoclinic orbits of a finite-dimensional Hamiltonian system, they have an integer-valued topological invariant, the Maslov index. We are interested in developing a robust numerical algorithm to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-14 Frédéric Chardard , Frédéric Dias , Thomas J. Bridges

In this paper, we study the existence of traveling wave solutions and the spreading speed for the solutions of an age-structured epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion. Our proofs make use of the comparison principles both to construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Arnaud Ducrot , Hao Kang

We study stability of travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which has the fractional dispersion and integer-indices double power nonlinearities. It may depend on parity combinations of the two indices and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Kaito Kokubu

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

We consider reaction-diffusion equations on the planar square lattice that admit spectrally stable planar travelling wave solutions. We show that these solutions can be continued into a branch of travelling corners. As an example, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Leonardo Morelli

For a coupled slow--fast FitzHugh--Nagumo(FHN) equation derived from a reaction-diffusion-mechanics (RDM) model, Holzer, Doelman and Kaper in 2013 studied existence and stability of the travelling pulse, which consists of two fast orbit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Qi Qiao , Xiang Zhang

We establish the existence and nonlinear stability of travelling pulse solutions for the discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo equation with infinite-range interactions close to the continuum limit. For the verification of the spectral properties, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-07 W. M. Schouten , H. J. Hupkes

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

We investigate a two-component reaction-diffusion system with a slow-fast structure and spatially varying coefficients $f_1$ and $f_2$ appearing in the slow equation. Under mild boundedness and regularity conditions on $f_1$ and $f_2$ the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 M. Chirilus-Bruckner , L. van Vianen , F. Veerman

We consider general reaction diffusion systems posed on rectangular lattices in two or more spatial dimensions. We show that travelling wave solutions to such systems that propagate in rational directions are nonlinearly stable under small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 A. Hoffman , H. J. Hupkes , E. Van Vleck

We consider periodic solutions to equations of Korteweg-Devries type. While the stability theory for periodic waves has received much some attention the theory is much less developed than the analogous theory for solitary wave stability,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-27 Jared C. Bronski , Mathew A. Johnson , Todd Kapitula

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann