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Turing patterns emerge from a spatially uniform state following a linear instability driven by diffusion. Features of the eventual pattern (stabilized by non-linearities) are already present in the initial unstable modes. On a uniform flat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-31 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Henry Shackleton

In this paper we consider a bistable reaction-diffusion equation in unbounded domains and we investigate the existence of propagation phenomena, possibly partial, in some direction or, on the contrary, of blocking phenomena. We start by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Henri Berestycki , Juliette Bouhours , Guillemette Chapuisat

Reaction-diffusion equations appear in biology and chemistry, and combine linear diffusion with different kind of reaction terms. Some of them are remarkable from the mathematical point of view, since they admit families of travelling waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alessandro Audrito

We study a nonlocal adhesion model for two interacting tumor cell phenotypes, combining diffusion, pairwise interactions, and random phenotypic switching. The system admits a microscopic diffusion--jump particle description whose mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Myeongju Chae , Young-Pil Choi

This paper is devoted to reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities depending periodically on time. These equations admit two linearly stable states. However, the reaction terms may not be bistable at every time. These may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Benjamin Contri

This paper is concerned with the uniqueness, existence, comparison principle and long-time behavior of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for a unidirectional diffusion equation. The unidirectional evolution often appears in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Goro Akagi , Masato Kimura

We describe various types of traveling fronts of bistable reaction-diffusion cellular automata. These dynamical systems with discrete time, space, and state spaces can be seen as fully discrete versions of widely studied bistable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Daniel Špale , Petr Stehlík

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

In this paper we address the large-time behavior of solutions of bistable and multistable reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuities around the stable steady states. We show that the solution always converges to a special solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Thomas Giletti , Ho-Youn Kim

We study the evolution of fronts in a bistable reaction-diffusion system when the nonlinear reaction term is spatially non-homogeneous. This equation has been used to model wave propagation in various biological systems. Extending previous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Horacio G. Rotstein , Anatol M. Zhabotinsky , Irving R. Epstein

We consider the reflection of a Dirac plane wave on a perfectly reflecting plane described by chiral MIT boundary conditions and determine the rotation of the spin in the reflected component of the wave. We solve the analogous problem for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-10 Nistor Nicolaevici

Anomalous transport in a circular comb is considered. The circular motion takes place for a fixed radius, while radii are continuously distributed along the circle. Two scenarios of the anomalous transport, related to the reflecting and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Iomin

We consider the singular limit of a bistable reaction diffusion equation in the case when the velocity of the traveling wave solution depends on the space variable and converges to a discontinuous function. We show that the family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Cecilia De Zan , Pierpaolo Soravia

We consider a porous media equation with balanced bistable reactions, equipped with some general nonlinear boundary condition. When the coefficient of the reaction term is much larger than that of the diffusion term, we see that, besides…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Bendong Lou

We consider in this paper a diffusion-convection reaction equation in one space dimension. The main assumptions are about the reaction term, which is monostable, and the diffusivity, which changes sign once or twice; then, we deal with a…

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

We consider the inverse random potential scattering problem for the two- and three-dimensional biharmonic wave equation in lossy media. The potential is assumed to be a microlocally isotropic Gaussian rough field. The main contributions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Peijun Li , Xu Wang

We introduce a general framework for the study of the diffraction of waves by cone points at high frequencies. We prove that semiclassical regularity propagates through cone points with an almost sharp loss even when the underlying operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Peter Hintz

This paper is devoted to study the wave propagation and its stability for a class of two-component discrete diffusive systems. We first establish the existence of positive monotone monostable traveling wave fronts. Then, applying the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhixian Yu , Yuji Wan , Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

Pattern formation in the classical and fractional Schnakenberg equations is studied to understand the nonlocal effects of anomalous diffusion. Starting with linear stability analysis, we find that if the activator and inhibitor have the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-06-21 Hatim Khudhair , Yanzhi Zhang , Nobuyuki Fukawa

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Saumyajit Das , Ram Gopal Jaiswal