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We prove the existence of a traveling wave solution for a boundary reaction diffusion equation when the reaction term is the combustion nonlinearity with ignition temperature. A key role in the proof is plaid by an explicit formula for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-25 L. Caffarelli , A. Mellet , Y. Sire

We study traveling waves for a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions. We describe relations between speeds and asymptotic of profiles of…

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

We identify a new type of pattern formation in spatially distributed active systems. We simulate one-dimensional two-component systems with predator-prey local interaction and pursuit-evasion taxis between the components. In a sufficiently…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 V. N. Biktashev , M. A. Tsyganov

The paper is devoted to a reaction-diffusion equation with delay arising in modelling the immune response. We prove the existence of travelling waves in the bistable case using the Leray-Schauder method. In difference with the previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Sergei Trofimchuk , Vitaly Volpert

The paper is concerned with a singular limit for the bistable traveling wave problem in a very large class of two-species fully nonlinear parabolic systems with competitive reaction terms. Assuming existence of traveling waves and enough…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Léo Girardin , Danielle Hilhorst

We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive travelling wave solutions for multi-dimensional autonomous reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. To prove the existence of travelling waves, we give an abstract…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

Continuing our previous study \cite{DJKZ} on the monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equation, we analyze the bistable case under weak regularity assumptions. Our approach applies monostable results on the subintervals where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

Propagation failure (pinning) of traveling waves is studied in a discrete scalar reaction-diffusion equation with a piecewise linear, bistable reaction function. The critical points of the pinning transition, and the wavefront profile at…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Gabor Fath

Nonlinear fronts between spatially extended traveling wave convection (TW) and quiescent fluid and spatially localized traveling waves (LTWs) are investigated in quantitative detail in the bistable regime of binary fluid mixtures heated…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Jung , M. Luecke

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

Hybrid models of chemotaxis combine agent-based models of cells with partial differential equation models of extracellular chemical signals. In this paper, travelling wave properties of hybrid models of bacterial chemotaxis are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Benjamin Franz , Chuan Xue , Kevin J. Painter , Radek Erban

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

Planar travelling waves on $\mathbb R^d,$ with $ d\geq 2,$ are shown to persist in systems of reaction-diffusion equations with multiplicative noise on significantly long timescales with high probability, provided that the wave is orbitally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Mark van den Bosch , Hermen Jan Hupkes

This paper is concerned with the existence and the stability of travelling wave solutions to a bistable reaction-diffusion equation with a jump discontinuious point on nonlinear term. Sub-super solution method is used throughout this paper.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Lingling Hou

Eukaryotic cells demonstrate a wide variety of dynamic patterns of filamentous actin (F-actin) and its regulators. Some of these patterns play important roles in cell functions, such as distinct motility modes, which motivate this study. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-13 Jack M. Hughes , Saar Modai , Leah Edelstein-Keshet , Arik Yochelis

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves of delayed reaction-diffusion systems where the reaction function possesses the mixed quasimonotonicity property. By the so-called monotone iteration scheme and Schauder's fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-21 Canrong Tian , Zhigui Lin

Spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations typically admit pulsating waves which describe the transition from one steady state to another. Due to the heterogeneity, in general such an equation is not invariant by rotation and therefore…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Weiwei Ding , Thomas Giletti

We study a two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA), called Diffusion Rule (DR), which exhibits diffusion-like dynamics of propagating patterns. In computational experiments we discover a wide range of mobile and stationary localizations…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Harold V. McIntosh

Drifting pattern domains (DPDs), moving localized patches of traveling waves embedded in a stationary (Turing) pattern background and vice versa, are observed in simulations of a reaction-diffusion model with nonlocal coupling. Within this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto M. Nicola , Michal Or-Guil , Wilfried Wolf , Markus Baer