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We consider a two-species reaction-diffusion system in one space dimension that is derived from an epidemiological model in a spatially periodic environment with two types of pathogens: the wild type and the mutant. The system is of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Quentin Griette , Hiroshi Matano

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

We study the spectral stability of travelling and stationary front and pulse solutions in a class of degenerate reaction-diffusion systems. We characterise the essential spectrum of the linearised operator in full generality and identify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 R. Marangell , J. J. Wylie , B. H. Bradshaw-Hajek

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 investigate spreading properties of solutions of a large class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems, including prey-predator systems as a special case. By spreading properties we mean the long time behaviour of solution fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

We are concerned with the asymptotic behaviour of classical solutions of systems of the form u_t = Au_xx + f(u, u_x), x in R, t>0, u(x,t) a vector in RN, with u(x,0)= U(x), where A is a positive-definite diagonal matrix and f is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. C. M. Crooks

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

This paper is concerned with reaction-diffusion-advection equations in spatially periodic media. Under an assumption of weak stability of the constant states 0 and 1, and of existence of pulsating traveling fronts connecting them, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hongjun Guo , François Hamel , Luca Rossi

We show that propagation speeds in invasion processes modeled by reaction-diffusion systems are determined by marginal spectral stability conditions, as predicted by the marginal stability conjecture. This conjecture was recently settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Montie Avery

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 existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

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 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

This paper is concerned with a time periodic competition-diffusion system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} {u_t}={u_{xx}}+u(r_1(t)-a_1(t)u-b_1(t)v),\quad t>0,~x\in \mathbb R, {v_t}=d{v_{xx}}+v(r_2(t)-a_2(t)u-b_2(t)v),\quad t>0,~x\in \mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Li-Jun Du , Wan-Tong Li , Jia-Bing Wang

We consider a single component reaction-diffusion equation in one dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. Our main result shows the existence, uniqueness (up to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

We consider general reaction diffusion systems posed on rectangular lattices in two or more spatial dimensions. We show that travelling wave solutions to such systems that propagate in rational directions are nonlinearly stable under small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 A. Hoffman , H. J. Hupkes , E. Van Vleck

We consider the motion of planar phase-transition fronts in first-order phase transitions of the Universe. We find the steady state wall velocity as a function of a friction coefficient and thermodynamical parameters, taking into account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-17 Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

Traveling fronts and stationary localized patterns in bistable reaction-diffusion systems have been broadly studied for classical continuous media and regular lattices. Analogs of such non-equilibrium patterns are also possible in networks.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-10-29 Nikos E. Kouvaris , Hiroshi Kori , Alexander S. Mikhailov

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