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We jointly investigate the existence of quasi-stationary distributions for one dimensional L\'evy processes and the existence of traveling waves for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov (F-KPP) equation associated with the same motion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Pablo Groisman , Matthieu Jonckheere

We study the velocity of travelling waves of a reaction-diffusion system coupling a standard reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a one-dimensional diffusion equation on a line. We show that it grows like the square root of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Laurent Dietrich

The aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fisher-KPP equation with nonlocal diffusion. In specific we prove the existence of a critical speed so that traveling front type solutions exist up to this critical speed and non-existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 José Fuentealba , Alexander Quaas

A modification of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation, determined by the substitution of Fick's diffusion law with a relaxation relation of Cattaneo-Maxwell type, is considered. The analysis concentrates on traveling fronts connecting the two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon G. Plaza , Chiara Simeoni

For certain values of the wave speed parameter, evolution equations for the temperature of a region of fuel admit traveling wave solutions describing fire fronts. We consider such a system in the form of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Olivia Chandrasekhar , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Blake Barker , Rodman Linn

Variation in genotypes may be responsible for differences in dispersal rates, directional biases, and growth rates of individuals. These traits may favor certain genotypes and enhance their spatio-temporal spreading into areas occupied by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Kollár Richard , Novak Sebastian

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…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-06 Christian Kuehn

We obtain the exact analytical traveling wave solutions of the Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov equation with the reaction term belonging to the class of functions, which includes that of the (generalized) Fisher equation, for the particular…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Eugene Kogan

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions in a space of bounded functions on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Using the properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

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

The solution h to the Fisher-KPP equation with a steep enough initial condition develops into a front moving at velocity 2, with logarithmic corrections to its position. In this paper we investigate the value h(c t, t) of the solution ahead…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Éric Brunet

We consider the Fisher-KPP equation with a non-local interaction term. Hamel and Ryzhik showed that in solutions of this equation, the front location at a large time $t$ is $\sqrt 2 t +o(t)$. We study the asymptotics of the second order…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Sarah Penington

We consider the semi linear Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piscounov equation for the advance of an advantageous gene in biology. Its non-smooth reaction function $f(u)$ allows for the introduction of travelling waves with a new profile. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Pavel Drábek , Peter Takáč

We study the one-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation, with an initial condition $u_0(x)$ that coincides with the step function except on a compact set. A well-known result of M. Bramson states that, as $t\to+\infty$, the solution converges to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik

In this paper, we study the traveling wave solutions to the density-suppressed motility model describing the ``self-trapping'' mechanism that induces spatio-temporal pattern formations observed in the experiment. We establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jing Li , Zhi-An Wang

We introduce a novel numerical method for direct simulation of front propagation in the Fisher-KPP equation with a time-dependent parameter on an infinite domain. The method computes a time-dependent boundary condition that accurately…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-12 Troy Tsubota , Smridhi Mahajan , Adrian van Kan , Edgar Knobloch

We consider solutions of the KPP-type equations with a periodically varying reaction rate, and compactly supported initial data. It has been shown by M. Bramson in the case of the constant reaction rate that the lag between the position of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Francois Hamel , James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik

The Fisher-KPP equation with general nonlinear diffusion and arbitrary kinetic orders in the reaction terms is considered. The existence of oscillatory travelling wave solutions is proved for this model. Conditions for the existence of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ariel Sánchez-Valdés , Benito Hernández-Bermejo

We study the limiting distribution of particles at the frontier of a branching random walk. The positions of these particles can be viewed as the lowest energies of a directed polymer in a random medium in the mean-field case. We show that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Eric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

This paper is concerned with spreading properties of space-time heterogeneous Fisher--KPP equations in one space dimension. We focus on the case of everywhere favorable environment with three different zones, a left half-line with slow or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Thomas Giletti , Léo Girardin , Hiroshi Matano