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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

We investigate blow-up phenomena for positive solutions of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations including a nonlinear convection term $\partial_t u = \Delta u - g(u) \cdot \nabla u + f(u)$ in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$ under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Gaëlle Pincet Mailly , Jean-François Rault

This paper is devoted to the study of travelling fronts of reaction-diffusion equations with periodic advection in the whole plane $\mathbb R^2$. We are interested in curved fronts satisfying some "conical" conditions at infinity. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Mohammad El Smaily , Francois Hamel , Rui Huang

We examine travelling wave solutions of the reaction-diffusion equation, $\partial_t u= R(u) + \partial_x \left[D(u) \partial_x u\right]$, with a Stefan-like condition at the edge of the moving front. With only a few assumptions on $R(u)$…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-07 Nabil T. Fadai

Let $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\alpha=\frac{2\beta-1}{1-m}$ and $\frac{2}{1-m}<\frac{\alpha}{\beta}<\frac{n-2}{m}$. We give a new direct proof using fixed point method on the existence of singular radially symmetric forward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Kin Ming Hui , Jongmyeong Kim

In this paper, we consider nonnegative solutions of spatially heterogeneous Fisher-KPP type reaction-diffusion equations in the whole space. Under some assumptions on the initial conditions, including in particular the case of compactly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Emmanuel Grenier , François Hamel

We establish rigorous lower bounds on the speed of traveling fronts and on the bulk burning rate in reaction-diffusion equation with passive advection. The non-linearity is assumed to be of either KPP or ignition type. We consider two main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander Kiselev , Leonid Ryzhik

We analyze the dynamics of pattern forming fronts which propagate into an unstable state, and whose dynamics is of the pulled type, so that their asymptotic speed is equal to the linear spreading speed v^*. We discuss a method that allows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ute Ebert , Willem Spruijt , Wim van Saarloos

The problem of velocity selection of reaction-diffusion fronts has been widely investigated. While the mean field limit results are well known theoretically, there is a lack of analytic progress in those cases in which fluctuations are to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos Escudero

We study the Cauchy problem in the hyperbolic space for the heat equation with a Fisher-KPP type forcing term. Depending on the relative strength of diffusion, measured by the infimum of the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 María del Mar González , Irene Gonzálvez , Fernando Quirós

We study the spreading speed of a diffusive epidemic model proposed by Li et al. \cite{LL}, where the Stefan boundary condition is imposed at the right boundary, and the left boundary is subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Xueping Li , Lei Li , Mingxin Wang

We study existence and uniqueness of travelling fronts, and asymptotic speed of propagation for a non local reaction diffusion equation with spatial and genetic trait structure.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Henri Berestycki , Tianling Jin , Luis Silvestre

We investigate a two-component reaction-diffusion system with a slow-fast structure and spatially varying coefficients $f_1$ and $f_2$ appearing in the slow equation. Under mild boundedness and regularity conditions on $f_1$ and $f_2$ the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 M. Chirilus-Bruckner , L. van Vianen , F. Veerman

We discuss conditions for well-posedness of the scalar reaction-diffusion equation $u_{t}=\Delta u+f(u)$ equipped with Dirichlet boundary conditions where the initial data is unbounded. Standard growth conditions are juxtaposed with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-25 James C. Robinson , Mikołaj Sierżęga

In this paper, we extend and complement previous works about propagation in kinetic reaction-transport equations. The model we study describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating according to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Emeric Bouin , Nils Caillerie

Reaction-diffusion equations describe various spatially extended processes that unfold as traveling fronts moving at constant velocity. We introduce and solve analytically a model that, besides such fronts, supports solutions advancing as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Louis Brezin , Kyle J. Shaffer , Kirill S. Korolev

In this paper, we mainly investigate the spreading dynamics of a nonlocal diffusion KPP model with free boundaries which is firstly explored in time almost periodic media. As the spreading occurs, the long-run dynamics are obtained.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Chengcheng Cheng , Rong Yuan

The problem of front propagation in flowing media is addressed for laminar velocity fields in two dimensions. Three representative cases are discussed: stationary cellular flow, stationary shear flow, and percolating flow. Production terms…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Abel , A. Celani , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

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

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation dynamics for a large class of non-monotone evolution systems. In two directions of the spatial variable, such a system has two limiting systems admitting the spatial translation invariance.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Taishan Yi , Xiao-Qiang Zhao