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The population dynamics that evolves in the radial symmetric geometry is investigated. The nonlinear reaction-diffusion model, which depends on population density, is employed as the governing equation for this system. The approximate…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Waipot Ngamsaad

Second initial boundary problem in narrow domains of width $\epsilon\ll 1$ for linear second order differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions is considered in this paper. Using probabilistic methods we show that the solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Mark Freidlin , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

A system of two cubic reaction-diffusion equations for two independent gene frequencies arising in population dynamics is studied. Depending on values of coefficients, all possible Lie and $Q$-conditional (nonclassical) symmetries are…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-03-27 Philip Broadbridge , Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych , Ian Marquette

In this paper, we explore the solvability and the optimal control problem for a compartmental model based on reaction-diffusion partial differential equations describing a transmissible disease. The nonlinear model takes into account the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Gabriela Marinoschi

We study reaction-diffusion equations in cylinders with possibly nonlinear diffusion and possibly nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions. We provide a geometric Poincar\'e-type inequality and classification results for stable solutions, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Serena Dipierro , Nicola Soave , Enrico Valdinoci

We devise a new geometric approach to study the propagation of disturbance - compactly supported data - in reaction diffusion equations. The method builds a bridge between the propagation of disturbance and of almost planar solutions. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Luca Rossi

We propose a class of nonlocal diffusion systems on time-varying domains, and fully characterize their asymptotic dynamics in the asymptotically fixed, time-periodic and unbounded cases. The kernel is not necessarily symmetric or compactly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Xiandong Lin , Hailong Ye , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We present a self-contained investigation on the local and global well-posedness for a system of nonlocal advection--diffusion equations for a heterogeneous population over $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \mathbb{N}$. Each convolution kernel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Joseph McCusker , John Christopher Meyer , Mabel Lizzy Rajendran

We study the propagation properties of nonnegative and bounded solutions of the class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear fractional diffusion: $u_{t} + (-\Delta)^s (u^m)=f(u)$. For all $0<s<1$ and $m> m_c=(N-2s)_+/N $, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Diana Stan , Juan Luis Vázquez

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Jong-Shenq Guo , Francois Hamel

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

In this work we propose a novel space-dependent multiscale model for the spread of infectious diseases in a two-dimensional spatial context on realistic geographical scenarios. The model couples a system of kinetic transport equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Walter Boscheri , Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

This paper concerns the nonautonomous reaction-diffusion equation \[ u_t=u_{xx}+ug(t,x-ct,u), \quad t>0,x\in\mathbb{R}, \] where $c\in\mathbb{R}$ is the shifting speed, and the time periodic nonlinearity $ug(t,\xi,u)$ is asymptotically of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jian Fang , Rui Peng , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We treat a model of population dynamics in a periodic environment presenting a fast diffusion line. This phenomenon is modelled via a "road-field" system, which is a system of coupled reaction-diffusion equations set in domains of different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Elisa Affili

Several problems, issued from physics, biology or the medical science, lead to parabolic equations set in two sub-domains separated by a membrane with selective permeability to specific molecules. The corresponding boundary conditions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Giorgia Ciavolella , Benoît Perthame

We consider a nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation that models a population structured in space and in phenotype. The population lives in a heterogeneous periodic environment: the diffusion coefficient, the mutation coefficient and the fitness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Nathanaël Boutillon

We consider the Fisher-KPP equation with a non-local interaction term. Hamel and Ryzhik showed that in solutions of this equation, the front location at a large time $t$ is $\sqrt 2 t +o(t)$. We study the asymptotics of the second order…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Sarah Penington

We consider a Fisher-KPP equation with density-dependent diffusion and advection, arising from a chemotaxis-growth model. We study its behavior as a small parameter, related to the thickness of a diffuse interface, tends to zero. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Matthieu Alfaro , Elisabeth Logak

We propose a mathematical framework to systematically explore the propagation properties of a class of continuous in time nonlinear neural network models comprising a hierarchy of processing areas, mutually connected according to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Andrea Alamia , Léa Dalliès , Grégory Faye , Rufin Vanrullen

We investigate the influence of a general non-local advection term of the form K * u to propagation in the one-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation. This model is a generalization of the Keller-Segel-Fisher system. When K $\in$ L 1 (R), we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-05 François Hamel , Christopher Henderson