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This work studies front formation in the Allen-Cahn equation with a parameter heterogeneity which slowly varies in space. In particular, we consider a heterogeneity which mediates the local stability of the zero state and subsequent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Ryan Goh , Tasso J. Kaper , Arnd Scheel , Theodore Vo

Motivated by bacterial chemotaxis and multi-species ecological interactions in heterogeneous environments, we study a general one-dimensional reaction-cross-diffusion system in the presence of spatial heterogeneity in both transport and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-08 Eamonn A. Gaffney , Andrew L. Krause , Philip K. Maini , Chenyuan Wang

In this paper, we study the large time behaviour of solutions of multistable reaction-diffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$, with a spatially periodic heterogeneity. By multistable, we mean that the problem admits a finite -- but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Thomas Giletti , Luca Rossi

Spatial systems with heterogeneities are ubiquitous in nature, from precipitation, temperature and soil gradients controlling vegetation growth to morphogen gradients controlling gene expression in embryos. Such systems, generally described…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Denis D. Patterson , Simon A. Levin , A. Carla Staver , Jonathan D. Touboul

We investigate the existence of stationary fronts in a coupled system of two sine-Gordon equations with a smooth, "hat-like" spatial inhomogeneity. The spatial inhomogeneity corresponds to a spatially dependent scaling of the sine-Gordon…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jacob Brooks , Gianne Derks , David J. B. Lloyd

Abridged abstract: Inert interactions between randomly moving entities and spatial disorder play a crucial role in quantifying the diffusive properties of a system. These interactions affect only the movement of the entities, and examples…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-20 Seeralan Sarvaharman , Luca Giuggioli

Originating from the pioneering study of Alan Turing, the bifurcation analysis predicting spatial pattern formation from a spatially uniform state for diffusing morphogens or chemical species that interact through nonlinear reactions is a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-18 Merlin Pelz , Michael J. Ward

The collective motion of interacting self-driven particles describes many types of coordinated dynamics and self-organisation. Prominent examples are alignment or lane formation which can be observed alongside other ordered structures and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-02-24 Basma Khelfa , Raphael Korbmacher , Andreas Schadschneider , Antoine Tordeux

The present paper is devoted to the investigation of various properties of transition fronts in nonlocal equations in heterogeneous media of ignition type, whose existence has been established by the authors of the present paper in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

Dynamics of many-body Hamiltonian systems with long range interactions is studied, in the context of the so called $\alpha-$HMF model. Building on the analogy with the related mean field model, we construct stationary states of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-15 Tineke L. Van Den Berg , Duccio Fanelli , Xavier Leoncini

Based on a recent work on traveling waves in spatially nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations, we investigate the existence of traveling fronts in reaction-diffusion equations with a memory term. We will explain how such memory terms can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Alexander Mielke , Sina Reichelt

Patterns in reaction-diffusion systems often contain two spatial scales; a long scale determined by a typical wavelength or domain size, and a short scale pertaining to front structures separating different domains. Such patterns naturally…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

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

This article concerns a systemic manifestation of small scale interfacial heterogeneities in large scale quantities of interest to a variety of diverse applications spanning the earth, biological and ecological sciences. Beginning with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Jorge M. Ramirez , Enrique A. Thomann , Edward C. Waymire

Spatio-temporal pattern formation in complex systems presents rich nonlinear dynamics which leads to the emergence of periodic nonequilibrium structures. One of the most prominent equations for the theoretical and numerical study of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-31 Daniel L. Coelho , Eduardo Vitral , José Pontes , Norberto Mangiavacchi

Spatial and temporal pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems is typically studied with two or more equations, as scalar reaction-diffusion equations confined to convex domains do not admit stable inhomogeneous states in time or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-07 N. Mahashri , Andrew L. Krause , M. Chandru , Thomas E. Woolley

We consider planar traveling fronts between stable steady states in two-component singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion-advection equations, where a small quantity $\delta^2$ represents the ratio of diffusion coefficients. The fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Paul Carter

The dynamics of transient patterns formed by front propagation in extended nonequilibrium systems is considered. Under certain circumstances, the state left behind a front propagating into an unstable homogeneous state can be an unstable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Montagne , A. Amengual , E. Hernandez-Garcia , M. San Miguel

In pattern-forming systems, localized patterns are states of intermediate complexity between fully extended ordered patterns and completely irregular patterns. They are formed by stationary fronts enclosing an ordered pattern inside an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-06 G. Kozyreff , S. J. Chapman

We study the dynamics of front solutions in a certain class of multi-component reaction-diffusion systems, where one fast component governed by an Allen-Cahn equation is weakly coupled to a system of $N$ linear slow reaction-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Martina Chirilus-Bruckner , Peter van Heijster , Jens D. M. Rademacher
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