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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner

Recent wildfires in the United States have resulted in loss of life and billions of dollars, destroying countless structures and forests. Fighting wildfires is extremely complex. It is difficult to observe the true state of fires due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Tina Diao , Samriddhi Singla , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Ahmed Eldawy , Ross Shachter , Mykel Kochenderfer

We consider the propagation of a flame front in a solid medium with a periodic structure. The model is governed by a free boundary system for the pair" temperature-front. "The front's normal velocity depends on the temperature via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Nathaël Alibaud , Gawtum Namah

We study traveling waves in a coordinate-free model of flame fronts. The flame front is the interface between the burnt and unburnt phases of a gas undergoing combustion. The front therefore moves in a preferred direction, as the unburnt…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Sultan Aitzhan , Benjamin F. Akers , David M. Ambrose

This work investigates the two-dimensional thermal behavior of a bilayer medium subject to both internal and external heat sources. The model incorporates diffusion, advection, and temperature-dependent volumetric heat generation or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Guillermo Federico Umbricht , Diana Rubio , Domingo Alberto Tarzia

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

In this paper, we carry out a travelling-wave analysis of a model of tumour invasion with degenerate, cross-dependent diffusion. We consider two types of invasive fronts of tumour tissue into extracellular matrix (ECM), which represents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Chloé Colson , Faustino Sánchez-Garduño , Helen M. Byrne , Philip K. Maini , Tommaso Lorenzi

Turbulence is of paramount importance in wildland fire propagation since it randomly transports the hot air mass that can pre-heat and then ignite the area ahead the fire. This contributes to give a random character to the firefront…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Gianni Pagnini , Luca Massidda

The review is devoted to analysis of mathematical models used for describing epidemic processes. A main focus is done on the models that are based on partial differential equations (PDEs), especially those that were developed and used for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-01 Vasyl' Davydovych , Vasyl' Dutka , Roman Cherniha

We investigate a reaction-diffusion-advection equation of the form $u_t-u_{xx}+\beta u_x=f(u)$ $(t>0,\,0<x<h(t))$ with mixed boundary condition at $x=0$ and a free boundary condition at $x=h(t)$. Such a model may be applied to describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Yonggang Zhao , Mingxin Wang

In this work, a thermal energy transfer problem in a one-dimensional multilayer body is theoretically analyzed, considering diffusion, advection, internal heat generation or loss linearly dependent on temperature in each layer, as well as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-16 Guillermo Federico Umbricht , Domingo Alberto Tarzia , Diana Rubio

Reactive Rayleigh-Taylor systems are characterized by the competition between the growth of the instability and the rate of reaction between cold (heavy) and hot (light) phases. We present results from state-of-the-art numerical simulations…

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Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with a convection term in one space variable, where the diffusion changes sign from the positive to the negative and the reaction term is bistable. We study the existence of wavefront solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We consider one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations for a large class of spatially periodic nonlinearities (including multistable ones) and study the asymptotic behavior of solutions with Heaviside type initial data. Our analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

We are concerned with the persistence of both predator and prey in a diffusive predator-prey system with a climate change effect, which is modeled by a spatial-temporal heterogeneity depending on a moving variable. Moreover, we consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Wonhyung Choi , Thomas Giletti , Jong-Shenq Guo

Dispersion curves to a oscillatory reaction-diffusion system with the self-consistent flow have obtained by means of numerical calculations. The flow modulates the shape of dispersion curves and characteristics of traveling waves. The point…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyasu Yamada , Toshiyuki Nakagaki

Many reaction-diffusion systems in various applications exhibit traveling wave solutions that evolve on multiple spatio-temporal scales. These traveling wave solutions are crucial for understanding the underlying dynamics of the system. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Jiaxi Gu , Daniel Olmos-Liceaga , Jae-Hun Jung

We study travelling-wave solutions for a reaction-diffusion system arising as a model for host-tissue degradation by bacteria. This system consists of a parabolic equation coupled with an ordinary differential equation. For large values of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Danielle Hilhorst , John R. King , Matthias Röger

In the present work, the discrete flame model [1] is augmented by introducing the thermal inertia of particles in the preheating zone. The effect of particle thermal inertia on flame speed, propagation limits, and near-limits dynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-11 Daoguan Ning , Yuriy Shoshin