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The diffusion approximation of the Wright-Fisher model of population genetics leads to partial differentiable equations, the so-called Kolmogorov equations, with an operator that degenerates at the boundary. Standard tools do not apply, and…
In this paper, we study gradient decay estimates for solutions to the multi-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation with fractional diffusion. It is known that this equation exhibits exponentially advancing level sets with strong qualitative upper…
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic dynamics of Fisher-KPP equations with nonlocal dispersal operator and nonlocal reaction term in time periodic and space heterogeneous media. We first show the global existence and boundedness of…
For a fixed bounded domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ we investigate the asymptotic behaviour for large times of solutions to the $p$-Laplacian diffusion equation posed in a tubular domain \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = \Delta_p u \quad…
Approximate solutions of the Fisher equation obtained by different splitting methods are investigated. The error of this nonlinear problem is analyzed. The order of different splitting methods coupled with numerical methods of different…
A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…
Motivated by the uniqueness problem for monostable semi-wavefronts, we propose a revised version of the Diekmann and Kaper theory of a nonlinear convolution equation. Our version of the Diekmann-Kaper theory allows 1) to consider new types…
Invasion waves are a fundamental building block of theoretical ecology. In this study we aim to take the first steps to link propagation failure and fast acceleration of traveling waves to critical transitions (or tipping points). The…
We provide a representation result of parabolic semi-linear PD-Es, with polynomial nonlinearity, by branching diffusion processes. We extend the classical representation for KPP equations, introduced by Skorokhod (1964), Watanabe (1965) and…
We consider Fisher-KPP equation with advection: $u_t=u_{xx}-\beta u_x+f(u)$ for $x\in (g(t),h(t))$, where $g(t)$ and $h(t)$ are two free boundaries satisfying Stefan conditions. This equation is used to describe the population dynamics in…
We study nonlinear diffusion problems of the form $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ with free boundaries. Such problems may be used to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, with the free boundary representing the expanding front. For…
The FKPP equation with a variable growth rate and advection by an incompressible velocity field is considered as a model for plankton dispersed by ocean currents. If the average growth rate is negative then the model has a…
In this paper we consider a model for the diffusion of a population in a strip-shaped field, where the growth of the species is governed by a Fisher-KPP equation and which is bounded on one side by a road where the species can have a…
We investigate in the present paper the maximization problem for the L1 norm of the unique positive solution of an heterogeneous Fisher-KPP equation with respect to the growth rate. It is already known that the BV norms of maximizers of…
This paper concerns the nonautonomous reaction-diffusion equation \[ u_t=u_{xx}+ug(t,x-ct,u), \quad t>0,x\in\mathbb{R}, \] where $c\in\mathbb{R}$ is the shifting speed, and the time periodic nonlinearity $ug(t,\xi,u)$ is asymptotically of…
We consider the Fisher-KPP equation on a three-dimensional domain surrounded by a thin layer whose diffusion rates are drastically different from that in the bulk. The bulk is isotropic, while the layer is considered to be anisotropic and…
We investigate a nonlocal generalization of the Fisher-KPP equation, which incorporates logistic growth and diffusion, for a single species population in a viable patch (refuge). In this framework, diffusion plays an homogenizing role,…
We examine a generalized KPP equation with a ``$q$-diffusion", which is a framework that unifies various standard linear diffusion regimes: Fickian diffusion ($q = 0$), Stratonovich diffusion ($q = 1/2$), Fokker-Planck diffusion ($q = 1$),…
We investigate the uniform boundedness of the fronts of the solutions to the randomized Fisher-KPP equation and to its linearization, the parabolic Anderson model. It has been known that for the standard (i.e. deterministic) Fisher-KPP…
We aim to efficiently compute spreading speeds of reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) fronts in divergence free random flows under the Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity. We study a stochastic interacting particle method (IPM)…