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We investigate the super-linear spreading in a reaction-diffusion model analogous to the Fisher-KPP equation, but in which the population is heterogeneous with respect to the dispersal ability of individuals, and the saturation factor is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Vincent Calvez , Christopher Henderson , Sepideh Mirrahimi , Olga Turanova , Thierry Dumont

Invasion phenomena for heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations are contemporary and challenging questions in applied mathematics. In this paper we are interested in the question of spreading for a reaction-diffusion equation when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Juliette Bouhours , Thomas Giletti

Reaction-advection-diffusion equations, in periodic settings and with general type nonlinearities, admit a threshold known as the minimal speed of propagation. The minimal speed does not have an accessible formula when the nonlinearity is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Mohammad El Smaily , Chunhua Ou

This paper is devoted to the study of some qualitative and quantitative aspects of nonlinear propagation phenomena in diffusive media. More precisely, we consider the case a reaction-diffusion equation in a periodic medium with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-27 Francois Hamel , Yannick Sire

We establish in this article spreading properties for the solutions of equations of the type $\partial$ t u -- a(x)$\partial$ xx u -- q(x)$\partial$ x u = f (x, u), where a, q, f are only assumed to be uniformly continuous and bounded in x,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Henri Berestycki , Grégoire Nadin

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of porous medium type, with different kind of reaction terms, and nonnegative bounded initial data. For all the reaction terms under consideration there are initial data for which the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Alejandro Gárriz

We study acceleration phenomena in monostable integro-differential equations with ignition nonlinearity. Our results cover fractional Laplace operators and standard convolutions in a unified way, which is also a contribution of this paper.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville , Guillaume Legendre

This paper studies an epidemic model with nonlocal dispersals. We focus on the influences of initial data and nonlocal dispersals on its spatial propagation. Here the initial data stand for the spatial concentrations of infectious agent and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Wen-Bing Xu , Wan-Tong Li , Shigui Ruan

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

A numerical study of the role of anomalous diffusion in front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems is presented. Three models of anomalous diffusion are considered: fractional diffusion, tempered fractional diffusion, and a model that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-11 D. del-Castillo-Negrete

We study the Fisher-KPP equation with a fractional laplacian of order {\alpha} \in (0, 1). We know that the stable state invades the unstable one at constant speed for {\alpha} = 1, and at an exponential in time velocity for {\alpha} \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Anne-Charline Coulon , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

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

Many species see their range shifted poleward in response to global warming and need to keep pace in order to survive. To understand the effect of climate change on species ranges and its consequences on population dynamics, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Juliette Bouhours , Thomas Giletti

This paper concerns the nonautonomous reaction-diffusion equation \[ u_t=u_{xx}+ug(t,x-ct,u), \quad t>0,x\in\mathbb{R}, \] where $c\in\mathbb{R}$ is the shifting speed, and the time periodic nonlinearity $ug(t,\xi,u)$ is asymptotically of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jian Fang , Rui Peng , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear propagation phenomena for reaction-advection-diffusion equations with Kolmogrov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) type nonlinearities in general periodic domains or in infinite cylinders with oscillating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-23 Mohammad El Smaily

We investigate in this paper propagation phenomena for the heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation $\partial_t u -\Delta u = f(t,u)$, $x\in R^N$, $t\in\R$, where f=f(t,u) is a KPP monostable nonlinearity which depends in a general way on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Grégoire Nadin , Luca Rossi

We determine the asymptotic spreading speed of the solutions of a Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation, starting from compactly supported initial data, when the diffusion coefficient is a fixed bounded monotone profile that is shifted at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Grégory Faye , Thomas Giletti , Matt Holzer

We take interest in a reaction-diffusion system which has been recently proposed [11] as a model for the effect of a road on propagation phenomena arising in epidemiology and ecology. This system consists in coupling a classical Fisher-KPP…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Thomas Giletti , Léonard Monsaingeon , Maolin Zhou

We consider a class of cooperative reaction-diffusion systems with free boundaries in one space dimension, where the diffusion terms are nonlocal, given by integral operators involving suitable kernel functions, and they are allowed not to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Yihong Du , Wenjie Ni