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Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools with applications in computer vision and scientific machine learning (SciML), where they have been used to solve large-scale probabilistic inverse problems. Traditionally, these…

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 prove existence and uniqueness of travelling waves for a reaction-diffusion system coupling a classical reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a diffusion equation on a line. To do this we use a continuation method which leads to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Laurent Dietrich

We develop backstepping state feedback control to stabilize a moving shockwave in a freeway segment under bilateral boundary actuations of traffic flow. A moving shockwave, consisting of light traffic upstream of the shockwave and heavy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Huan Yu , Mamadou Diagne , Liguo Zhang , Miroslav Krstic

In this work, we investigate non-classical wavetrain formations, and particularly dispersive shock waves (DSWs), or undular bores, in systems exhibiting non-convex dispersion. Our prototypical model, which arises in shallow water wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-06 Saleh Baqer , Theodoros P. Horikis , Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis

The addition of higher order asymptotic corrections to the Korteweg-de Vries equation results in the extended Korteweg-de Vries equation. These higher order terms destabilise the dispersive shock wave solution, also termed an undular bore…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-15 Saleh Baqer , Noel F. Smyth

In planetary fluid cores, the density depends on temperature and chemical composition, which diffuse at very different rates. This leads to various instabilities, bearing the name of double-diffusive convection. We investigate rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Rémy Monville , Jérémie Vidal , David Cébron , Nathanaël Schaeffer

The background of this work is the problem of reducing the aerodynamic turbulent friction drag, which is an important source of energy waste in innumerable technological fields. We develop a theoretical framework aimed at predicting the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-01-23 Marco Belan , Maurizio Quadrio

We study the spectral stability of travelling and stationary front and pulse solutions in a class of degenerate reaction-diffusion systems. We characterise the essential spectrum of the linearised operator in full generality and identify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 R. Marangell , J. J. Wylie , B. H. Bradshaw-Hajek

We study a system of reaction-diffusion equations posed on a bounded domain composed of subdomains separated by a connected network with a metric graph structure. The reaction-diffusion dynamics with anisotropic diffusion on the graph edges…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Xiao Meng , Kei Fong Lam

Recently, the problem of boundary stabilization and estimation for unstable linear constant-coefficient reaction-diffusion equation on n-balls (in particular, disks and spheres) has been solved by means of the backstepping method. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Rafael Vazquez , Jing Zhang , Jie Qi , Miroslav Krstic

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

Traveling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are well-studied for Lipschitz continuous monostable and bistable reaction functions. These special solutions play a key role in mathematical biology and in particular in the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Thomas Giletti , Ho-Youn Kim , Yong-Jung Kim

The basic conceptual picture and theoretical basis for development of transport equations in porous media are examined. The general form of the governing equations is derived for conservative chemical transport in heterogeneous geological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brian Berkowitz , Joseph Klafter , Ralf Metzler , Harvey Scher

Some of the most impressive singular wave fronts seen in Nature are the transbasin oceanic internal waves, which may be observed from the Space Shuttle as they propagate and interact with each other, for example, in the South China Sea. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-01-09 Darryl D. Holm , Martin F. Staley

In this work we study travelling wave solutions to bistable reaction diffusion equations on bi-infinite $k$-ary trees in the continuum regime where the diffusion parameter is large. Adapting the spectral convergence method developed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Mia Jukic

In the Heliosphere, power-law particle distributions are observed e.g. upstream of interplanetary shocks, which can result from superdiffusive transport. This non-Gaussian transport regime may result from intermittent magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Sophie Aerdker , Lukas Merten , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Julia Becker Tjus

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

We study analytically and numerically the generation of shock waves in a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) made of dilute and ultracold alkali-metal atoms. For the BEC we use an equation of state based on a 1D…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-03-30 Luca Salasnich

This paper is devoted to the study of travelling fronts of reaction-diffusion equations with periodic advection in the whole plane $\mathbb R^2$. We are interested in curved fronts satisfying some "conical" conditions at infinity. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Mohammad El Smaily , Francois Hamel , Rui Huang