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We consider flame front propagation in channel geometries. The steady state solution in this problem is space dependent, and therefore the linear stability analysis is described by a partial integro-differential equation with a space…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-08-19 Oleg Kupervasser , Zeev Olami , Itamar Procaccia

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Ruth E. Baker

We review progress on questions related to front propagation into unstable states and point out open problems in the area. We strive to highlight different theoretical perspectives and challenges while also addressing more practical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Montie Avery , Matt Holzer , Arnd Scheel

We consider the problem of the speed selection mechanism for the one dimensional nonlinear diffusion equation $u_t = u_{xx} + f(u)$. It has been rigorously shown by Aronson and Weinberger that for a wide class of functions $f$, sufficiently…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-08-14 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

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

We consider spatially discrete bistable reaction-diffusion equations that admit wave front solutions. Depending on the parameters involved, such wave fronts appear to be pinned or to glide at a certain speed. We study the transition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

Using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations we study the propagation of planar fronts in superconductors, which would appear after a quench to zero applied magnetic field. Our numerical solutions show that the fronts propagate at a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. John Di Bartolo , Alan T. Dorsey

We consider a family of controlled reaction-diffusion equations, describing the spatial spreading of an invasive biological species. For a given propagation speed $c\in{I\!\!R}$, we seek a control with minimum cost, which achieves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Alberto Bressan , Minyan Zhang

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

We study 2D fronts propagating up a co-moving reaction rate gradient in finite number reaction-diffusion systems. We show that in a 2D rectangular channel, planar solutions to the deterministic mean-field equation are stable with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Scott Wylie , Herbert Levine , David A. Kessler

It is known that solutions of nonlocal dispersal evolution equations do not become smoother in space as time elapses. This lack of space regularity would cause a lot of difficulties in studying transition fronts in nonlocal equations. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We study the persistence and propagation (or blocking) phenomena for a species in periodically hostile environments. The problem is described by a reaction-diffusion equation with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We first derive the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Jong-Shenq Guo , Francois Hamel

We investigate numerically the blocking of two-dimensional bistable reaction diffusion fronts by geometric obstacles. Our goal is to derive quantitative criteria for front propagation in the presence of spatial heterogeneities. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , J. Gatlik , B. Sarels

Propagation of traveling fronts in three-dimensional reaction-diffusion media with spatially modulated cross-section is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Applying appropriate perturbation techniques leads first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-26 S. Martens , J. Löber , H. Engel

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

This is a study of front dynamics in reaction diffusion systems near Nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch bifurcations. We find that the relation between front velocity and perturbative factors, such as external fields and curvature, is typically…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Christian Elphick , Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

Reaction-diffusion models are often used to describe biological invasion, where populations of individuals that undergo random motility and proliferation lead to moving fronts. Many models of biological invasion are extensions of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Matthew J Simpson , Nizhum Rahman , Alexander KY Tam

Front propagation in two dimensional steady and unsteady cellular flows is investigated in the limit of very fast reaction and sharp front, i.e., in the geometrical optics limit. In the steady case, by means of a simplified model, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Cencini , A. Torcini , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation phenomena for a Lotka-Volterra reaction-advection-diffusion competition model in a periodic habitat. We first investigate the global attractivity of a semi-trival steady state for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion system describing the propagation of flames under the assumption of ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order. It was shown in [3] that this system admits a traveling front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Amanda Matson , Claude-Michel Brauner , Peter V. Gordon