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The problem of front propagation in flowing media is addressed for laminar velocity fields in two dimensions. Three representative cases are discussed: stationary cellular flow, stationary shear flow, and percolating flow. Production terms…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Abel , A. Celani , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

A thorough analysis is performed to find traveling waves in a qualitative reaction-diffusion system inspired by a predator-prey model. We provide rigorous results coming from a standard local stability analysis, numerical bifurcation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-09 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Pablo Aguirre , Víctor F. Breña-Medina

We describe the accelerated propagation wave arising from a non-local reaction-diffusion equation. This equation originates from an ecological problem, where accelerated biological invasions have been documented. The analysis is based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Nathanaël Berestycki , Clément Mouhot , Gaël Raoul

Standard Reaction-Diffusion (RD) systems are characterized by infinite velocities and no persistence in the movement of individuals, two conditions that are violated when considering living organisms. Here we consider a discrete particle…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Davide Vergni , Stefano Berti , Angelo Vulpiani , Massimo Cencini

We prove the existence of a family of travelling wave solutions in a variant of the $\textit{Zeldovich-Frank-Kamenetskii (ZFK) equation}$, a reaction-diffusion equation which models the propagation of planar laminar premixed flames in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Samuel Jelbart , Kristian Uldall Kristiansen , Peter Szmolyan

Turbulent, relativistic nonthermal plasmas are ubiquitous in high-energy astrophysical systems, as inferred from broadband nonthermal emission spectra. The underlying turbulent nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA) processes have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Kai W. Wong , Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

This work presents algebraic closure models associated with advective transport and nonlinear reactions in a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes context for a system of species subject to binary reactions and transport by advection and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-29 Omkar B. Shende , Ali Mani

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in narrow random channels. We approximate the generalized solution to this equation by the corresponding one on a random graph. By making use of large deviation analysis we study the asymptotic wave…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

Wildfires are among the most severe disturbances affecting forest ecosystems, with over 50,000 hectares burned in Patagonia, Argentina, during 2025 alone. This study implements a Reaction-Diffusion-Convection (RDC) model to simulate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-04 Lucas Becerra , Monica Malen Denham , Alejandro B. Kolton , Karina Laneri

Motivated by tumor growth in Cancer Biology, we provide a complete analysis of existence and non-existence of invasive fronts for the reduced Gatenby--Gawlinski model \[ \partial_t U = U\{f(U)-dV\}, \qquad \partial_t V = \partial_x…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Thierry Gallay , Corrado Mascia

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

We propose a reaction-transport model for CTRW with non-linear reactions and non-exponential waiting time distributions. We derive non-linear evolution equation for mesoscopic density of particles. We apply this equation to the problem of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei Fedotov

This paper is concerned with the analysis of speed-up of reaction-diffusion-advection traveling fronts in infinite cylinders with periodic boundary conditions. The advection is a shear flow with a large amplitude and the reaction is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Francois Hamel , Andrej Zlatos

The Fisher and Burgers' equations with finite memory transport, describing reaction-diffusion and convection-diffusion processes, respectively have recently attracted a lot of attention in the context of chemical kinetics, mathematical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandip Kar , Suman Kumar Banik , Deb Shankar Ray

With the increased size and frequency of wildfire eventsworldwide, accurate real-time prediction of evolving wildfirefronts is a crucial component of firefighting efforts and for-est management practices. We propose a wildfire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Maxfield E. Green , Karl Kaiser , Nat Shenton

The use of reaction-diffusion models rests on the key assumption that the underlying diffusive process is Gaussian. However, a growing number of studies have pointed out the prevalence of anomalous diffusion, and there is a need to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. del-Castillo-Negrete , B. A. Carreras , V. E. Lynch

We describe the resulting spatiotemporal dynamics when a homogeneous equilibrium loses stability in a spatially extended system. More precisely, we consider reaction-diffusion systems, assuming only that the reaction kinetics undergo a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Montie Avery

Computed flame motion through and between swirling eddys exhibits a maximum advancement rate which is related to the time duration of flame motion between eddys. This eddy spatial structure effect upon the apparent turbulent flame speed…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Wm. T. Ashurst

We study in detail a one-dimensional lattice model of a continuum, conserved field (mass) that is transferred deterministically between neighbouring random sites. The model falls in a wider class of lattice models capturing the joint effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-01 Stefano Lepri , Paolo Politi , Arkady Pikovsky

The paper concerns front propagation for the following mono-stable reaction-diffusion-advection equation \[f(u)u_x + g(u)u_\tau = [d(u)|u_x|^{p-2} u_x]_x+ \rho(u), \quad (x,\tau)\in \R\times [0,+\infty).\] Besides existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Cristina Marcelli