English
Related papers

Related papers: Asymptotic spreading for Fisher-KPP reaction-diffu…

200 papers

We study analytically and numerically a model describing front propagation of a KPP reaction in a fluid flow. The model consists of coupled one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with different drift coefficients. The main rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lam Raga A. Markely , David Andrzejewski , Erick Butzlaff , Alexander Kiselev

The long-time behavior of a reaction-diffusion front between one static (e.g. porous solid) reactant A and one initially separated diffusing reactant B is analyzed for the mean-field reaction-rate density R(\rho_A,\rho_B) =…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Z. Bazant , Howard A. Stone

In this paper, we study the spatial propagation dynamics of a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with logistic source which reduces to the well-known Fisher-KPP equation without chemotaxis. It is known that for fast decaying initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Zhi-An Wang , Wen-Bing Xu

We study traveling waves for a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions. We describe relations between speeds and asymptotic of profiles of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts of nonlocal Fisher-KPP equations in time heterogeneous media. We first construct transition fronts with prescribed interface location functions, which are natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

This paper deals with the existence of traveling fronts guided by the medium for a KPP reaction-diffusion equation coming from a model in population dynamics in which there is spatial spreading as well as genetic mutation of a quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Henri Berestycki , Guillemette Chapuisat

We study the coupling of a Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equation to a separate, advection-only transport process. We find that the front dynamics can be described by an FKPP-like equation only at sufficiently fast diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-06 Oleg Kogan , Kevin O'Keeffe , Christopher R. Myers

We are concerned with the Cauchy problem $u_{t}=(u^{m})_{xx}+f(u)$, where the nonliearity $f(u)$ is of combustion type and the initial data is compactly supported. In \cite{lou2024convergence}, among other things, the authors prove that by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Suying Liu , Fan Wu

This paper is an introductory review of the problem of front propagation into unstable states. Our presentation is centered around the concept of the asymptotic linear spreading velocity v*, the asymptotic rate with which initially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Wim van Saarloos

We consider a Fisher-KPP-type equation, where both diffusion and nonlinear part are nonlocal, with anisotropic probability kernels. Under minimal conditions on the coefficients, we prove existence, uniqueness, and uniform space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

This paper is devoted to the study of some qualitative and quantitative aspects of nonlinear propagation phenomena in diffusive media. More precisely, we consider the case a reaction-diffusion equation in a periodic medium with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-27 Francois Hamel , Yannick Sire

We study nonlinear stability of pulled fronts in scalar parabolic equations on the real line of arbitrary order, under conceptual assumptions on existence and spectral stability of fronts. In this general setting, we establish sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Montie Avery , Arnd Scheel

We investigate the large-time dynamics of solutions of multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with ignition type nonlinearities. We consider solutions which are in some sense locally persistent at large time and initial data which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Thomas Giletti , François Hamel

We investigate the propagation of chemical fronts arising in Fisher--Kolmogorov--Petrovskii--Piskunov (FKPP) type models in the presence of a steady cellular flow. In the long-time limit, a steadily propagating pulsating front is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexandra Tzella , Jacques Vanneste

This paper investigates the dynamics of a reaction-diffusion system with two free boundaries, modeling the invasion of two cooperative species, where the free boundaries represent expanding fronts. We first analyze the long-term behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Qian Qin , JinJing Jiao , Zhiguo Wang , Hua Nie

We consider Fisher-KPP-type reaction-diffusion equations with spatially inhomogeneous reaction rates. We show that a sufficiently strong localized inhomogeneity may prevent existence of transition-front-type global in time solutions while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik , Andrej Zlatos

We consider reaction-diffusion equations with combustion-type non-linearities in two dimensions and study speed-up of their pulsating fronts by general periodic incompressible flows with a cellular structure. We show that the occurence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Andrej Zlatos

This paper concerns the sharp asymptotic profiles of the solution of a diffusive epidemic model with one free boundary and one fixed boundary which is subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and Neumann boundary condition,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Xueping Li , Lei Li , Mingxin Wang

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic spreading of a Lotka-Volterra cooperative system. By using the theory of asymptotic spreading of nonautonomous equations, the asymptotic speeds of spreading of unknown functions formulated by a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-01-06 Guo Lin

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of KPP type in one spatial dimension, perturbed by a Fisher-Wright white noise, under the assumption of uniqueness in distribution. Examples include the randomly perturbed Fisher-KPP equations $…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-20 Carl Mueller , Leonid Mytnik , Jeremy Quastel