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Recently, Benzoni--Gavage, Danchin, Descombes, and Jamet have given a sufficient condition for linear and nonlinear stability of solitary wave solutions of Korteweg's model for phase-transitional isentropic gas dynamics in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Zumbrun

We consider a class of singularly perturbed 2-component reaction-diffusion equations which admit bistable traveling front solutions, manifesting as sharp, slow-fast-slow, interfaces between stable homogeneous rest states. In many example…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Paul Carter , Arjen Doelman , Kaitlynn Lilly , Erin Obermayer , Shreyas Rao

Using test-particle simulations, we investigate the temporal dependence of the two-point velocity correlation function for charged particles scattering in a time-independent spatially fluctuating magnetic field derived from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Federico Fraschetti , Joe Giacalone

The problem of velocity selection for reaction fronts has been intensively investigated, leading to the successful marginal stability approach for propagation into an unstable state. Because the front velocity is controlled by the leading…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Leonid Pechenik , Herbert Levine

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

In this work, we answer three fundamental questions concerning monostable travelling fronts for the scalar Kolmogorov ecological equation with diffusion and spatiotemporal interaction: these are the questions about their existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Karel Hasík , Jana Kopfová , Petra Nábělková , Sergei Trofimchuk

An overlooked straightforward application of velocity reciprocity to a triplet of inertial frames in collinear motion identifies the ratio of their cyclic relative velocities' sum to the negative product as a cosmic invariant, whose inverse…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Brian Coleman

We investigate phase separation dynamics in a binary mixture subjected to a moving cooling source from which cold temperature fronts propagate radially outward into the mixture. The motion of the source introduces two distinct velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Lakshmipriya K , Harssh Karn , Sutapa Roy

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

This paper is concerned with pulsating waves for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media. First, assuming the existence of pulsating waves connecting two linearly stable steady states, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weiwei Ding , Zhanghua Liang , Wenfeng Liu

This paper is chiefly concerned with qualitative properties of some reaction-diffusion fronts. The recently defined notions of transition fronts generalize the standard notions of traveling fronts. In this paper, we show the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-21 Francois Hamel

The Onsager principle provides a variational route to the phenomenological equations of dissipative dynamics through the minimization of the Rayleighian. We develop a covariant formulation of the Onsager principle for active systems,…

We present a new variational principle for linking models of beams and deformable solids, providing also its mathematical analysis. Despite the apparent differences between the two types of governing equations, it will be shown that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Ignacio Romero

This paper investigates the propagation phenomena of a monotone bistable reaction-diffusion system in an exterior domain of R2. By constructing suitable sub- and supersolutions, we establish the existence and monotonicity of an entire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng

We describe the resulting spatiotemporal dynamics when a homogeneous equilibrium loses stability in a spatially extended system. More precisely, we consider reaction-diffusion systems, assuming only that the reaction kinetics undergo a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Montie Avery

We investigate travelling wave solutions in reaction-diffusion models of animal range expansion in the case that population diffusion is density-dependent. We find that the speed of the selected wave depends critically on the strength of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Beth M. Stokes , Tim Rogers , Richard James

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

We establish the variational principle of Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) front speeds in temporally random shear flows inside an infinite cylinder, under suitable assumptions of the shear field. A key quantity in the variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 James Nolen , Jack Xin

This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of transition fronts of a general reaction-diffusion-advection equation in domains with multiple branches. In this paper, every branch in the domain is not necessary to be straight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Hongjun Guo

We study 2D fronts propagating up a co-moving reaction rate gradient in finite number reaction-diffusion systems. We show that in a 2D rectangular channel, planar solutions to the deterministic mean-field equation are stable with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Scott Wylie , Herbert Levine , David A. Kessler