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We study the traveling wave solutions to a reaction diffusion system modeling the public goods game with altruistic behaviors. The existence of the waves is derived through monotone iteration of a pair of classical upper- and lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Xiaojie Hou , Wei Feng

We proved the existence and uniqueness of a traveling wave solution to the thin film equation with a Navier slip condition at the liquid-solid interface. We obtain explicit lower and upper bounds for the solution and an absolute error…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Roman M. Taranets

A modification of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation, determined by the substitution of Fick's diffusion law with a relaxation relation of Cattaneo-Maxwell type, is considered. The analysis concentrates on traveling fronts connecting the two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon G. Plaza , Chiara Simeoni

We identify the nonlinear evolution equation in impact-parameter space for the "Supercritical Pomeron" in Reggeon Field Theory as a 2-dimensional stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piscounov equation. It exactly preserves unitarity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Robi Peschanski

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 study invasion fronts in the FitzHugh--Nagumo equation in the oscillatory regime using singular perturbation techniques. Phenomenologically, localized perturbations of the unstable steady-state grow and spread, creating temporal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-05 Paul Carter , Arnd Scheel

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

In this paper, we shall establish the spreading speed and existence of traveling waves for a non-cooperative system arising from epidermal wound healing and characterize the spreading speed as the slowest speed of a family of non-constant…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-09 Haiyan Wang

How well do multisymplectic discretisations preserve travelling wave solutions? To answer this question, the 5-point central difference scheme is applied to the semi-linear wave equation. A travelling wave ansatz leads to an ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Fleur McDonald , Robert I McLachlan , Brian E Moore , G R W Quispel

We investigate traveling wave solutions for a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations characterized by double degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t= -f(n,b), \quad b_t=[g(n)h(b)b_x]_x+f(n,b).\] These systems mainly appear in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Eduardo Muñoz-Hernández , Elisa Sovrano , Valentina Taddei

In this study, we investigate the existence of traveling wave solutions for a SIR model on two-dimensional lattice. The existence of traveling waves is established within the framework of upper and lower solutions and the Schauder…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ran Zhang , Shunchang Su , Xue Ren

In 1992 G. B. Ermentrout and J. B. McLeod published a landmark study of traveling wave fronts for a differential-integral equation modeling a neural network. Since then a number of authors have extended the model by adding an additional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Stuart Hastings

The paper deals with the studies of the nonlinear wave solutions supported by the modified FitzHugh-Nagumo (mFHN) system. It was proved in our previous work that the model, under certain conditions, possesses a set of soliton-like traveling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-06 Aleksandra Gawlik , Sergii Skurativskyi , Vsevolod Vladimirov

In this paper, we carry out a travelling-wave analysis of a model of tumour invasion with degenerate, cross-dependent diffusion. We consider two types of invasive fronts of tumour tissue into extracellular matrix (ECM), which represents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Chloé Colson , Faustino Sánchez-Garduño , Helen M. Byrne , Philip K. Maini , Tommaso Lorenzi

We consider periodic traveling wave solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) that have been shown to persist when the NLS is perturbed to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGL). In particular, we show that these…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Ivey , Stephane Lafortune

The Nikolaevskiy equation was originally proposed as a model for seismic waves and is also a model for a wide variety of systems incorporating a neutral, Goldstone mode, including electroconvection and reaction-diffusion systems. It is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Eman Simbawa , Paul C. Matthews , Stephen M. Cox

This article investigates a mathematical model for bushfire propagation, focusing on the existence and properties of translating solutions. We obtain quantitative bounds on the environmental diffusion coefficient and ignition kernels,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In the present study, we revisit the theme of wave propagation in locally resonant granular crystal systems, also referred to as Mass-in-Mass systems. We use 3 distinct approaches to identify relevant traveling waves. The first consists of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Stefanov

We consider in this paper a diffusion-convection reaction equation in one space dimension. The main assumptions are about the reaction term, which is monostable, and the diffusivity, which changes sign once or twice; then, we deal with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

For a class of scalar partial differential equations that incorporate convection, diffusion, and possibly dispersion in one space and one time dimension, the stability of traveling wave solutions is investigated. If the initial perturbation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans Engler