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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

We discuss the front propagation in the $A+B\rightarrow 2A$ reaction under subdiffusion which is described by continuous time random walks with a heavy-tailed power law waiting time probability density function. Using a crossover argument,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 D. Froemberg , H. H. Schmidt-Martens , I. M. Sokolov , F. Sagués

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with a nonlinear term of the Fisher-KPP type, depending on time $t$ and admitting two limits as $t\to\pm\infty$. We derive the set of admissible asymptotic past and future speeds of transition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Francois Hamel , Luca Rossi

This paper is devoted to Fokker-Planck and linear kinetic equations with very weak confinement corresponding to a potential with an at most logarithmic growth and no integrable stationary state. Our goal is to understand how to measure the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Emeric Bouin , Jean Dolbeault , Christian Schmeiser

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical Fisher-KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since, in the case of linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vazquez

This paper is devoted to the study of spatial propagation dynamics of species in locally spatially inhomogeneous patchy environments or media. For a lattice differential equation with monostable nonlinearity in a discrete homogeneous media,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Erik S. Van Vleck , Aijun Zhang

We study propagation over $\mathbb{R}^d$ of the solution to a nonlocal nonlinear equation with anisotropic kernels, which can be interpretted as a doubly nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation of the Fisher--KPP-type. We prove that if the…

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

We propose here a new model of accelerating fronts, consisting of one equation with non-local diffusion on a line, coupled via the boundary condition with a reaction-diffusion equation in the upper half-plane. The underlying biological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Henri Berestycki , Anne-Charline Coulon , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Luca Rossi

We study front propagation and diffusion in the reaction-diffusion system A $\leftrightharpoons$ A + A on a lattice. On each lattice site at most one A particle is allowed at any time. In this paper, we analyze the problem in the full range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debabrata Panja , Goutam Tripathy , Wim van Saarloos

In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties of pushed fronts for the periodic reaction-diffusion-equation with general monostable nonlinearities. Especially, we prove the exponential behavior of pushed fronts when they are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Hongjun Guo

This paper is concerned with the spreading speeds of nonlocal dispersal predator-prey systems in shifting habitats under general initial conditions. By employing geometric optics techniques and theory of viscosity solutions, we reformulate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Wen Tao , Wan-Tong Li , Shigui Ruan , Wen-Bing Xu

Reaction-diffusion equations deliver a versatile tool for the description of reactions in inhomogeneous systems under the assumption that the characteristic reaction scales and the scales of the inhomogeneities in the reactant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. G. W. Schmidt , F. Sagues , I. M. Sokolov

We model the growth, dispersal and mutation of two phenotypes of a species using reaction-diffusion equations, focusing on the biologically realistic case of small mutation rates. After verifying that the addition of a small linear mutation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Aled Morris , Luca Börger , Elaine Crooks

Understanding anomalous transport and reaction kinetics due to microscopic physical and chemical disorder is a long-standing goal in many fields including geophysics, biology, and engineering. We consider reaction-diffusion characterized by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Gerald J. Lapeyre , Marco Dentz

We introduce a model of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations to describe the dynamics and propagation of flame fronts in random media. The model incorporates heat diffusion, its dissipation, and its production through coupling to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 N. Provatas , T. Ala-Nissila , M. Grant , K. R. Elder , L. Piché

We investigate the relaxation of long-tailed distributions under stochastic dynamics that do not support such tails. Linear relaxation is found to be a borderline case in which long tails are exponentially suppressed in time but not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Christian Van den Broeck , Upendra Harbola , Raul Toral , Katja Lindenberg

We develop non-linear integro-differential kinetic equations for proliferating L\'{e}vy walkers with birth and death processes. A hyperbolic scaling is applied directly to the general equations to get the Hamilton-Jacobi equations that will…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 Helena Stage , Sergei Fedotov , Vicenç Méndez

We consider a multidimensional reaction-diffusion equation of either ignition or monostable type, involving periodic heterogeneity, and analyze the dependence of the propagation phenomena on the direction. We prove that the (minimal) speed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti

We discuss the problem of fronts propagating into metastable and unstable states. We examine the time development of the leading edge, discovering a precursor which in the metastable case propagates out ahead of the front at a velocity more…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 David A. Kessler , Zvi Ner , Leonard M. Sander

We develop techniques to capture the effect of transport on the long-term dynamics of small, localized initial data in nonlinearly coupled reaction-diffusion-advection equations on the real line. It is well-known that quadratic or cubic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Björn de Rijk , Guido Schneider