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This paper is devoted to propagation phenomena for a reaction-diffusion-advection equation in a one-dimensional heterogeneous environment, where heterogeneity is reflected by the nonlinearity term -- being KPP type on $(-\infty, -L]$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Xing Liang , Lei Zhang , Mingmin Zhang

Reaction-diffusion equations with a nonlinear source have been widely used to model various systems, with particular application to biology. Here, we provide a solution technique for these types of equations in $N$-dimensions. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-24 P Broadbridge , BH Bradshaw-Hajek

We study the uniqueness of steady states of strong-KPP reaction--diffusion equations in general domains under various boundary conditions. We show that positive bounded steady states are unique provided the domain satisfies a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Henri Berestycki , Cole Graham

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

We consider nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) for advection-diffusion processes which are augmented by an auxiliary parameter $\delta$ such that $\delta=0$ corresponds to linear advection-diffusion. We derive potentially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 T. Forrest Kieffer , Jakob Cupp , John S. Van Dyke , Paraj Titum , Michael L. Wall

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

The current paper is concerned with positive stationary solutions and spatial spreading speeds of KPP type evolution equations with random or nonlocal or discrete dispersal in locally spatially inhomogeneous media. It is shown that such an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Liang Kong , Wenxian Shen

In this paper we analyse the asymptotic behaviour of some nonlocal diffusion problems with local reaction term in general metric measure spaces. We find certain classes of nonlinear terms, including logistic type terms, for which solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Aníbal Rodríguez-Bernal , Silvia Sastre-Gomez

We consider similarity solutions of the generalized convection-diffusion-reaction equation with both space- and time-dependent convection, diffusion and reaction terms. By introducing the similarity variable, the reaction-diffusion equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 C. -L. Ho , C. -M. Yang

We consider a family of exact solutions to a nonlinear reaction-diffusion model, constructed using nonclassical symmetry analysis. In a particular limit, the mathematical model approaches the well-known Fisher-KPP model, which means that it…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-02-21 Scott W McCue , Bronwyn H Bradshaw-Hajek , Matthew J Simpson

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 study entire solutions to homogeneous reaction-diffusion equations in several dimensions with Fisher-KPP reactions. Any entire solution $0<u<1$ is known to satisfy \[ \lim_{t\to -\infty} \sup_{|x|\le c|t|} u(t,x) = 0 \qquad \text{for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Amir Alwan , Zonglin Han , Jessica Lin , Zijian Tao , Andrej Zlatos

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

We study the planar front solution for a class of reaction diffusion equations in multidimensional space in the case when the essential spectrum of the linearization in the direction of the front touches the imaginary axis. At the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Anna Ghazaryan , Yuri Latushkin , Xinyao Yang

In this paper, we study the propagation speeds of reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) fronts in time-periodic cellular and chaotic flows with Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity. We first apply the variational principle to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Junlong Lyu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

The initial inverse problem of finding solutions and their initial values ($t = 0$) appearing in a general class of fractional reaction-diffusion equations from the knowledge of solutions at the final time ($t = T$). Our work focuses on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Tran Bao Ngoc , Yavar Kian , Nguyen Huy Tuan

We consider in this article reaction-diffusion equations of the Fisher-KPP type with a nonlinearity depending on the space variable x, oscillating slowly and non-periodically. We are interested in the width of the interface between the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 François Hamel , Grégoire Nadin

Reaction-diffusion equations appear in biology and chemistry, and combine linear diffusion with different kind of reaction terms. Some of them are remarkable from the mathematical point of view, since they admit families of travelling waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alessandro Audrito

We study the propagation properties of nonnegative and bounded solutions of the class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear fractional diffusion: $u_{t} + (-\Delta)^s (u^m)=f(u)$. For all $0<s<1$ and $m> m_c=(N-2s)_+/N $, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Diana Stan , Juan Luis Vázquez

The asymptotic behavior of a class of stochastic reaction-diffusion-advection equations in the plane is studied. We show that as the divergence-free advection term becomes larger and larger, the solutions of such equations converge to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Sandra Cerrai , Guangyu Xi