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Motile eukaryotic cells display distinct modes of migration that often occur within the same cell type. It remains unclear, however, whether transitions between the migratory modes require changes in external conditions, or whether the…

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We consider reaction-diffusion equations on the planar square lattice that admit spectrally stable planar travelling wave solutions. We show that these solutions can be continued into a branch of travelling corners. As an example, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Leonardo Morelli

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a reaction-diffusion equation with state-dependent delay. When the birth function is monotone, the existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions are established.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Guo Lin , Haiyan Wang

We provide a mathematical analysis of a thermo-diffusive combustion model of lean spray flames, for which we prove the existence of travelling waves. In the high activation energy singular limit we show the existence of two distinct…

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Stochastic processes govern the time evolution of a huge variety of realistic systems throughout the sciences. A minimal description of noisy many-particle systems within a Markovian picture and with a notion of spatial dimension is given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-25 Andrea Pizzi , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Johannes Knolle

We study the existence of traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems with delays in both diffusion and reaction terms of the form $\partial u(x,t)/\partial t = \Delta u(x,t-\tau_1)+f(u(x,t),u(x,t-\tau_2))$, where $\tau_1,\tau_2$ are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-23 William Barker , Nguyen Van Minh

We devote this paper to the issue of existence of pulsating travelling front solutions for spatially periodic heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations in arbitrary dimension, in both bistable and more general multistable frameworks. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Thomas Giletti , Luca Rossi

This paper is concerned with the existence and qualitative properties of pulsating fronts for spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities. We focus especially on the influence of the spatial period and,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Weiwei Ding , Francois Hamel , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

We study reaction-diffusion equations of various types in the half-space. For bistable reactions with Dirichlet boundary conditions, we prove conditional uniqueness: there is a unique nonzero bounded steady state which exceeds the bistable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Henri Berestycki , Cole Graham

Self-activation coupled to a transport mechanism results in traveling waves that describe polymerization reactions, forest fires, tumor growth, and even the spread of epidemics. Diffusion is a simple and commonly used model of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-06 Keisuke Ishihara , Ashish B. George , Ryan Cornelius , Kirill S. Korolev

We study a system of interacting particles in a periodically moving external potential, within the simplest possible description of paradigmatic symmetric exclusion process on a ring. The model describes diffusion of hardcore particles…

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The transport and chemical reactions of solutes are modelled as a cellular automaton in which molecules of different species perform a random walk on a regular lattice and react according to a local probabilistic rule. The model describes…

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In this note, we give constructive upper and lower bounds for the minimal speed of propagation of traveling waves for non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-16 Maitere Aguerrea , Gabriel Valenzuela

We consider a family of controlled reaction-diffusion equations, describing the spatial spreading of an invasive biological species. For a given propagation speed $c\in{I\!\!R}$, we seek a control with minimum cost, which achieves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Alberto Bressan , Minyan Zhang

Many diffusion processes in nature and society were found to be anomalous, in the sense of being fundamentally different from conventional Brownian motion. An important example is the migration of biological cells, which exhibits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-13 J. M. Nava-Sedeno , H. Hatzikirou , R. Klages , A. Deutsch

We study the dynamics of waves in a system of diffusively coupled discrete nonlinear sources. We show that the system exhibits burst waves which are periodic in a traveling-wave reference frame. We demonstrate that the burst waves are…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Mitkov , Konstantin Kladko , John E. Pearson

In this paper, we focus on the existence of propagation fronts, solutions to non-local dispersion reaction models. Our aim is to provide a unified proof of this existence in a very broad framework using simple real analysis tools. In…

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