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We consider the equation $u_t=u_{xx}+b(x)u(1-u),$ $x\in\mathbb R,$ where $b(x)$ is a nonnegative measure on $\mathbb R$ that is periodic in $x.$ In the case where $b(x)$ is a smooth periodic function, it is known that there exists a…
We study the existence of particular traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear parabolic degenerate diffusion equation with a shear flow. Under some assumptions we prove that such solutions exist at least for propagation speeds c {\in}]c*,…
The current series of three papers is concerned with the asymptotic dynamics in the following chemotaxis model $$\partial_tu=\Delta u-\chi\nabla(u\nabla v)+u(a(x,t)-ub(x,t))\ ,\ 0=\Delta v-\lambda v+\mu u \ \ (1)$$where $\chi, \lambda, \mu$…
We prove the growth rate of global solutions of the equation $u_t=\Delta u-u^{-\nu}$ in $\R^n\times (0,\infty)$, $u(x,0)=u_0>0$ in $\R^n$, where $\nu>0$ is a constant. More precisely for any $0<u_0\in C(\R^n)$ satisfying…
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The taxis-type migration-consumption model accounting for signal-dependent motilities, as given by \[ u_t = \Delta \big(u\phi(v)\big), v_t = \Delta v-uv, \qquad (*) \] is considered for suitably smooth functions $\phi:[0,\infty)\to R$ which…
We consider a reaction-diffusion-advection equation of the form: $u_t=u_{xx}-\beta(t)u_x+f(t,u)$ for $x\in (g(t),h(t))$, where $\beta(t)$ is a $T$-periodic function representing the intensity of the advection, $f(t,u)$ is a Fisher-KPP type…
We consider the Fast Diffusion Equation $u_t=\Delta u^m$ posed in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset \RR^d$ with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions; the exponent range is $m_s=(d-2)_+/(d+2)<m<1$. It is known that bounded positive…
We study the persistence and propagation (or blocking) phenomena for a species in periodically hostile environments. The problem is described by a reaction-diffusion equation with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We first derive the…
We consider reaction-diffusion equations $\partial_tu=\Delta u+f(u)$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ and we are interested in the large-time dynamics of solutions ranging in the interval $[0,1]$, with general unbounded initial support.…
In this paper, we investigated a density-dependent reaction-diffusion equation, $u_t = (u^{m})_{xx} + u - u^{m}$. This equation is known as the extension of the Fisher or Kolmogoroff-Petrovsky-Piscounoff equation which is widely used in the…
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