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In this series of papers, we investigate the spreading and vanishing dynamics of time almost periodic diffusive KPP equations with free boundaries. Such equations are used to characterize the spreading of a new species in time almost…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Fang Li , Xing Liang , Wenxian Shen

The background method is adapted to derive rigorous limits on surface speeds and bulk energy dissipation for shear stress driven flow in two and three dimensional channels. By-products of the analysis are nonlinear energy stability results…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 George I. Hagstrom , Charles R. Doering

We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Lionel Roques

In this stub article, we show that laminar quasi-periodically developed flow is characterized by velocity and pressure modes which decay exponentially along the main flow direction. As the amplitudes of these modes exhibit streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-27 Geert Buckinx , Arthur Vangeffelen

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

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

This paper is a continuation of [2] where a new model of biological invasions in the plane directed by a line was introduced. Here we include new features such as transport and reaction terms on the line. Their interaction with the pure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Henri Berestycki , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Luca Rossi

In this paper we are interested in propagation phenomena for nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations of the type: $\delta_tu = J \times u - u + f (x, u) t \in R^+, x \in R^N$, where J is a probability density and f is a KPP nonlinearity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Jerome Coville , Juan Davila , Salome Martinez

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

In this paper we consider a reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-KPP type inside an infinite cylindrical domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$, coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation on the boundary of the domain, where potentially fast…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Luca Rossi , Andrea Tellini , Enrico Valdinoci

In Cao, Du, Li and Li [8], a nonlocal diffusion model with free boundaries extending the local diffusion model of Du and Lin [12] was introduced and studied. For Fisher-KPP type nonlinearities, its long-time dynamical behaviour is shown to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Yihong Du , Fang Li , Maolin Zhou

This paper is concerned with spreading properties of space-time heterogeneous Fisher--KPP equations in one space dimension. We focus on the case of everywhere favorable environment with three different zones, a left half-line with slow or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Thomas Giletti , Léo Girardin , Hiroshi Matano

In this paper, we treat the Fisher-KPP equation with a Caputo-type time fractional derivative and discuss the propagation speed of the solution. The equation is a mathematical model that describes the processes of sub-diffusion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Hiroshi Ishii

This paper is concerned with qualitative properties of bounded steady flows of an ideal incompressible fluid with no stagnation point in the two-dimensional plane R^2. We show that any such flow is a shear flow, that is, it is parallel to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Francois Hamel , Nikolai Nadirashvili

We prove the existence and uniqueness, up to a shift in time, of curved traveling fronts for a reaction-advection-diffusion equation with a combustion-type nonlinearity. The advection is through a shear flow $q$. This analyzes, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Mohammad El Smaily

Classical nucleation theory offers a good framework for understanding the common features of new phase formation processes in metastable homogeneous media at rest. However, nucleation processes in liquids are ubiquitously affected by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-18 F. Mura , A. Zaccone

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the large-time behavior of solutions of one-dimensional Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations. The initial conditions are assumed to be globally front-like and to decay at infinity towards the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

The acceleration of energetic particles in astrophysical shear flows is analyzed. We show that in the presence of a non-relativistic gradual velocity shear, power law particle momentum distributions $f(p) \propto p^{-(3+\alpha)}$ may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. M. Rieger , P. Duffy

In this paper, we mainly investigate the spreading dynamics of a nonlocal diffusion KPP model with free boundaries which is firstly explored in time almost periodic media. As the spreading occurs, the long-run dynamics are obtained.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Chengcheng Cheng , Rong Yuan

We consider the equation $u_t=u_{xx}+u_{yy}+b(x)f(u)+g(u)$, $(x,y)\in\mathbb R^2$ with monostable nonliearity, where $b(x)$ is a nonnegative measure on $\mathbb R$ that is periodic in $x.$ In the case where $b(x)$ is a smooth periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-06 Xing Liang , Xiaotao Lin , Hiroshi Matano