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We consider bistable reaction-diffusion equations in funnel-shaped domains of R N made up of straight parts and conical parts with positive opening angles. We study the large time dynamics of entire solutions emanating from a planar front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-17 François Hamel , Mingmin Zhang

We study the front propagation in Reaction-Diffusion systems whose reaction dynamics exhibits an unstable fixed point and chaotic or noisy behaviour. We have examined the influence of chaos and noise on the front propagation speed and on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Torcini , Angelo Vulpiani , Andrea Rocco

We study the asymptotic behaviour, in the small noise limit, of stochastic travelling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion equations perturbed by Wright-Fisher noise. Such equations are predicted to display three distinct responses to noise…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Alison Etheridge , Raphaël Forien , Thomas Hughes , Sarah Penington

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with a convection term in one space variable, where the diffusion changes sign from the positive to the negative and the reaction term is bistable. We study the existence of wavefront solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We study the asymptotic speed of traveling fronts of the scalar reaction diffusion for positive reaction terms and with a diffusion coefficient depending nonlinearly on the concentration and on its gradient. We restrict our study to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

Quantum drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. The (formal) derivation turns out to be a non-standard application of the usual mathematical tools, such as Wigner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Luigi Barletti , Philipp Holzinger , Ansgar Jüngel

Cosmic-ray transport in astrophysical environments is often dominated by the diffusion of particles in a magnetic field composed of both a turbulent and a mean component. This process, which is two-fold turbulent mixing in that the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 P. Reichherzer , L. Merten , J. Dörner , J. Becker Tjus , M. J. Pueschel , E. G. Zweibel

The dynamics of many natural systems is dominated by non-linear waves propagating through the medium. We show that the dynamics of non-linear wave fronts with positive surface tension can be formulated as a gradient system. The variational…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-02-24 Hans Dierckx , Henri Verschelde

In this paper, we consider a Fisher-KPP equation with an advection term and two free boundaries, which models the behavior of an invasive species in one dimension space. When spreading happens (that is, the solution converges to a positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Hong Gu , Zhigui Lin , Bendong Lou

Analysis of the speed of propagation in parabolic operators is frequently carried out considering the minimal speed at which its traveling waves move. This value depends on the solution concept being considered. We analyze an extensive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Margarita Arias , Juan Campos

The~numerical solutions to a non-linear Fractional Fokker--Planck (FFP) equation are studied estimating the generalized diffusion coefficients. The~aim is to model anomalous diffusion using an FFP description with fractional velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Johan Anderson , Sara Moradi , Tariq Rafiq

Unbound wave packets propagating to macroscopic space and time coordinates become proportional to their (Fourier transform) momentum distribution at earlier times whereby the asymptotic coordinates and the initial momenta are connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 James M. Feagin , John S. Briggs

A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

We consider in this paper a diffusion-convection reaction equation in one space dimension. The main assumptions are about the reaction term, which is monostable, and the diffusivity, which changes sign once or twice; then, we deal with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

This paper is concerned with non-cooperative parabolic reaction--diffusion systems which share structural similarities with the scalar Fisher--KPP equation. In a previous paper, we established that these systems admit traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Léo Girardin

We analyze the propagation properties of the numerical versions of one and two-dimensional wave equations, semi-discretized in space by finite difference schemes. We focus on high-frequency solutions whose propagation can be described, both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Umberto Biccari , Aurora Marica , Enrique Zuazua

This paper is concerned with transition fronts for reaction-diffusion equations of the Fisher-KPP type. Basic examples of transition fronts connecting the unstable steady state to the stable one are the standard traveling fronts, but the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Francois Hamel , Luca Rossi

This paper investigates the dynamics of a reaction-diffusion system with two free boundaries, modeling the invasion of two cooperative species, where the free boundaries represent expanding fronts. We first analyze the long-term behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Qian Qin , JinJing Jiao , Zhiguo Wang , Hua Nie

We uncover a seemingly previously unnoticed algebraic structure of a large class of reaction-diffusion equations and use it, in particular, to study the long time behavior of the solutions and their convergence to traveling waves in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik

The aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fisher-KPP equation with nonlocal diffusion. In specific we prove the existence of a critical speed so that traveling front type solutions exist up to this critical speed and non-existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 José Fuentealba , Alexander Quaas