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Traveling fronts describe the transition between two alternative states in a great number of physical and biological systems. Examples include the spread of beneficial mutations, chemical reactions, and the invasions by foreign species. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-14 Ching-Hao Wang , Sakib Matin , Ashish B. George , Kirill S. Korolev

We develop techniques to capture the effect of transport on the long-term dynamics of small, localized initial data in nonlinearly coupled reaction-diffusion-advection equations on the real line. It is well-known that quadratic or cubic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Björn de Rijk , Guido Schneider

The modelling of linear and nonlinear reaction-subdiffusion processes is more subtle than normal diffusion and causes different phenomena. The resulting equations feature a spatial Laplacian with a temporal memory term through a time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Jichen Yang , Jens D. M. Rademacher

We study flow-induced enhancement of the speed of pulsating traveling fronts for reaction-diffusion equations, and quenching of reaction by fluid flows. We prove, for periodic flows in two dimensions and any combustion-type reaction, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-27 Andrej Zlatos

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

Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

This paper is concerned with the propagation dynamics of time almost periodic reaction-diffusion equations. Assuming the existence of a time almost periodic traveling wave connecting two stable steady states, we focus especially on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Weiwei Ding

We consider planar traveling fronts between stable steady states in two-component singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion-advection equations, where a small quantity $\delta^2$ represents the ratio of diffusion coefficients. The fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Paul Carter

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

The current paper is devoted to the study of spreading speeds and transition fronts of lattice KPP equations in time heterogeneous media. We first prove the existence, uniqueness, and stability of spatially homogeneous entire positive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Feng Cao , Wenxian Shen

The empirical speed of travelling reaction-diffusion fronts fluctuates due to the intrinsic shot noise of the reactions and diffusion. Here we study the long-time front speed fluctuations of a stochastic Huxley-Zel'dovich front. It involves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Evgeniy Khain , Baruch Meerson , Pavel V. Sasorov

The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We consider a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation as a model for a population structured by a space variable and a phenotypical trait. To sustain the possibility of invasion in the case where an underlying principal eigenvalue is negative,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Matthieu Alfaro , Jérôme Coville , Gaël Raoul

We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

This paper presents results on the unboundedness and minimal speed of traveling wave solutions for a one-dimensional spatial reaction-diffusion equation with an asymptotically linear reaction term and a saturation parameter. By applying a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yu Ichida

We study a reaction-diffusion system of partial differential equations, which can be taken to be a basic model for criminal activity. We show that the assumption of a populations natural tendency towards crime significantly changes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Henri Berestycki , Nancy Rodriguez , Lenya Ryzhik

In this paper diffusion processes with changing modes are studied involving the variable order partial differential equations. We prove the existence and uniqueness theorem of a solution of the Cauchy problem for fractional variable order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Sabir Umarov , Stanly Steinberg

Invasion phenomena for heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations are contemporary and challenging questions in applied mathematics. In this paper we are interested in the question of spreading for a reaction-diffusion equation when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Juliette Bouhours , Thomas Giletti

We study a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model that contains a transport term in the spatial variable. The transport term models the vertical motion of particles due to gravity, thereby incorporating their fall into the dynamics.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Iulia Cristian , Juan J. L. Velázquez

In this work we use tempered fractional advection-diffusion equations to model the dispersive transport in disordered materials. A numerical method is derived to approximate the solution of such differential models and we prove that it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Maria Luísa Morgado , Luís Filipe Morgado