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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Alessandro Alla , Alessandra De Luca , Raffaele Folino , Marta Strani

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 use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

In this paper we provide an example of a class of two reaction-diffusion-ODE equations with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, in which Turing-type instability not only destabilizes constant steady states but also induces blow-up of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki , Jacek Zienkiewicz

The fractional reaction diffusion equation u_t + Au = g(u) is discussed, where A is a fractional differential operator on the real line with order \alpha between 0 and 2, the C^1 function g vanishes at 0 and 1, and either g is non-negative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Hans Engler

We consider planar traveling fronts between stable steady states in two-component singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion-advection equations, where a small quantity $\delta^2$ represents the ratio of diffusion coefficients. The fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Paul Carter

Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common partial differential equations used to model physical phenomenon. They arise as the combination of two physical processes: a driving force $f(u)$ that depends on the state variable $u$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

We study the existence of particular traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear parabolic degenerate diffusion equation with a shear flow. Under some assumptions we prove that such solutions exist at least for propagation speeds c {\in}]c*,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Léonard Monsaingeon , Alexeï Novikov , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

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 consider two physically and mathematically distinct regularization mechanisms of scalar hyperbolic conservation laws. When the flux is convex, the combination of diffusion and dispersion are known to give rise to monotonic and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer , M. Shearer

In this paper, we study the spreading speeds and traveling wave solutions of the PDE $$ \begin{cases} u_{t}= \Delta u-\chi \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + u(1-u),\ \ x\in\mathbb{R}^N 0=\Delta v-v+u, \ \ x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \end{cases} $$ where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Rachidi Salako , Wenxian Shen

Analytic solutions to the nonlinear radiation diffusion equation with an instantaneous point source for a non-homogeneous medium with a power law spatial density profile, are presented. The solutions are a generalization of the well known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Menahem Krief

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

We analyze under which conditions equilibration between two competing effects, repulsion modeled by nonlinear diffusion and attraction modeled by nonlocal interaction, occurs. This balance leads to continuous compactly supported radially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 J. A. Carrillo , S. Hittmeir , B. Volzone , Y. Yao

We investigate traveling wave solutions for a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations characterized by double degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t= -f(n,b), \quad b_t=[g(n)h(b)b_x]_x+f(n,b).\] These systems mainly appear in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Eduardo Muñoz-Hernández , Elisa Sovrano , Valentina Taddei

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

In this paper we study the following one-dimensional reaction-diffusion problem $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^s u=f(x-c t, u) \;\:\textrm{ in } \mathbb{R}\times (0,+\infty), $$ where $s>\frac{1}{2}$, $c \in \mathbb{R}$ is a prescribed velocity, and $f$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sebastián Flores-Sepúlveda , Gabrielle Nornberg , Alexander Quaas

A general system of n ordinary differential equations coupled with one reaction-diffusion equation, considered in a bounded N-dimensional domain, with no-flux boundary condition is studied in a context of pattern formation. Such initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Szymon Cygan , Grzegorz Karch , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Kanako Suzuki

The global boundedness and asymptotic behavior are investigated for the solutions of a nonlocal time fractional reaction-diffusion equation (NTFRDE) $$ \frac{\partial^{\alpha }u}{\partial t^{\alpha }}=\Delta u+\mu u^{2}(1-kJ*u)-\gamma u,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Hui Zhan , Fei Gao , Liujie Guo