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The current paper is devoted to the investigation of wave propagation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations with ignition type nonlinearity in time heterogeneous and random media. It is proven that such equations in time heterogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We prove the short-time asymptotic formula for the interfaces and local solutions near the interfaces for the nonlinear double degenerate reaction-diffusion equation of turbulent filtration with fast diffusion and strong absorption \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Ugur G. Abdulla , Adam Prinkey , Montie Avery

We study a non-linear convective-diffusive equation, local in space and time, which has its background in the dynamics of the thickness of a wetting film. The presence of a non-linear diffusion predicts the existence of fronts as well as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Alex Hansen , Bo-Sture Skagerstam , Glenn Tørå

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical Fisher-KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since, in the case of linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vazquez

We consider a degenerate abstract wave equation with a time-dependent propagation speed. We investigate the influence of a strong dissipation, namely a friction term that depends on a power of the elastic operator. We discover a threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Saumyajit Das , Ram Gopal Jaiswal

We study the homogeneous Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem (CDP) for a nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion equation of singular type of the form $\partial_t u =-\mathcal{L} u^m$ posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Matteo Bonforte , Peio Ibarrondo , Mikel Ispizua

A numerical study of the role of anomalous diffusion in front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems is presented. Three models of anomalous diffusion are considered: fractional diffusion, tempered fractional diffusion, and a model that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-11 D. del-Castillo-Negrete

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

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

We consider linear iterative schemes for the time-discrete equations stemming from a class of nonlinear, doubly-degenerate parabolic equations. More precisely, the diffusion is nonlinear and may vanish or become multivalued for certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Ayesha Javed , Koondanibha Mitra , Iuliu Sorin Pop

In this paper we consider semilinear wave equation and other second order $\sigma$-evolution equations with different (effective or non-effective) damping mechanisms driven by fractional Laplace operators; in particular, the nonlinear term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Wenhui Chen , Giovanni Girardi

We consider a class of reaction-diffusion equations of Fisher-KPP type in which the nonlinearity (reaction term) $f$ is merely $C^1$ at $u=0$ due to a logarithmic competition term. We first derive the asymptotic behavior of (minimal speed)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Emeric Bouin , Christopher Henderson

This paper investigates the initial-boundary value problem for weakly coupled systems of time-fractional subdiffusion equations with spatially and temporally varying coupling coefficients. By combining the energy method with the coercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Kazuma Wada

In this paper, the one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with the fractional derivative of order $1 \le \alpha \le 2$ is revisited. This equation interpolates between the diffusion and the wave equations that behave quite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Yuri Luchko , Francesco Mainardi , Yuriy Povstenko

We study the well-posedness of a modified degenerate Cahn-Hilliard type model for surface diffusion. With degenerate phase-dependent diffusion mobility and additional stabilizing function, this model is able to give the correct sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Xiaohua Niu , Yang Xiang , Xiaodong Yan

We describe acceleration of the front propagation for solutions to a class of monostable nonlinear equations with a nonlocal diffusion in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq1$. We show that the acceleration takes place if either the diffusion kernel or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

We propose and analyse numerical schemes for a system of quasilinear, degenerate evolution equations modelling biofilm growth as well as other processes such as flow through porous media and the spreading of wildfires. The first equation in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 R. K. H. Smeets , K. Mitra , I. S. Pop , S. Sonner

Reaction-diffusion models are often used to describe biological invasion, where populations of individuals that undergo random motility and proliferation lead to moving fronts. Many models of biological invasion are extensions of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Matthew J Simpson , Nizhum Rahman , Alexander KY Tam

A wave front of Fisher and Kolmogorov, Petrovskii, and Piskunov type involving two species A and B with different diffusion coefficients $D_A$ and $D_B$ is studied using a master equation approach in dilute and concentrated solutions.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-26 Gabriel Morgado , Bogdan Nowakowski , Annie Lemarchand