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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

In this paper we consider a system of two reaction-diffusion equations that models diffusional-thermal combustion with stepwise ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order 0 < $\alpha$ < 1. We turn the free interface problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Claude-Michel Brauner , Robert Roussarie , Peipei Shang , Linwan Zhang

We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for a general Fisher-Burgers equation with nonlinear and possibly density-dependent diffusion. Such a model arises, for instance, in physical phenomena where a saturation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Maurizion Garrione , Marta Strani

We follow up an earlier work (briefly reviewed below) to investigate the temporal stability of an exact travelling front solution, constructed in the form of an integral expression, for a one-dimensional discrete Nagumo-like model without…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Priyadarshi Majudar , Avijit Lahiri

This paper presents results on the unboundedness and minimal speed of traveling wave solutions for a one-dimensional spatial reaction-diffusion equation with an asymptotically linear reaction term and a saturation parameter. By applying a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yu Ichida

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time heterogeneous nonlinearity of ignition type. It is proven that such an equation admits space monotone transition fronts with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

Multiple time scales problems are investigated by combining geometrical and analytical approaches. More precisely, for fast-slow reaction-diffusion systems, we first prove the existence of slow manifolds for the abstract problem under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Laurent Desvillettes , Christian Kuehn , Jan-Eric Sulzbach , Bao Quoc Tang , Bao-Ngoc Tran

In the past the study of reaction-diffusion systems has greatly contributed to our understanding of the behavior of many-body systems far from equilibrium. In this paper we aim at characterizing the properties of diffusion limited reactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

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

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

We consider a reaction-diffusion system for two densities lying in adjacent domains of $\mathbb{R}^N$. We treat two configurations: either a cylinder and its complement, or two half-spaces. Diffusion and reaction heterogeneities for the two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Henri Berestycki , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tellini

Spontaneous pattern formation in homogeneous systems is ubiquitous in nature. Although Turing demonstrated that spatial patterns can emerge in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems when the homogeneous state becomes linearly unstable, it remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Shuonan Wu , Bing Yu , Yuhai Tu , Lei Zhang

We consider a one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation coupled to a conservation law, where both equations contain additional dispersive terms breaking the reflection symmetry $x \mapsto -x$. This system exhibits a Turing instability and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Bastian Hilder

When the steady states at infinity become unstable through a pattern forming bifurcation, a travelling wave may bifurcate into a modulated front which is time-periodic in a moving frame. This scenario has been studied by B.Sandstede and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thierry Gallay , Guido Schneider , Hannes Uecker

This paper deals with the existence of traveling fronts guided by the medium for a KPP reaction-diffusion equation coming from a model in population dynamics in which there is spatial spreading as well as genetic mutation of a quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Henri Berestycki , Guillemette Chapuisat

We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

In this paper we consider a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion model with piecewise continuous reaction term that describes propagation of autoignition fronts in reactive co-flow jets in a certain parametric regime. The model is reduced to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Mingxin Ma , Peter V. Gordon , Robert Roussarie , Peipei Shang , Claude-Michel Brauner

We study the transient dynamics of single species reaction diffusion systems whose reaction terms $f(u)$ vary nonlinearly near $u\approx 0$, specifically as $f(u)\approx u^{2}$ and $f(u)\approx u^{3}$. We consider three cases, calculate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Giuggioli , Z. Kalay , V. M. Kenkre

This paper deals with a nonhomogeneous scalar parabolic equation with possibly degenerate diffusion term; the process has only one stationary state. The equation can be interpreted as modeling collective movements (crowd dynamics, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We study a two-component reaction-diffusion system in which one of the reaction terms becomes singularly large. Assuming that the initial data are nonnegative and mutually segregated, we prove that the solution converges to that of the heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Yuki Tsukamoto