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In this paper, we develop a comprehensive mathematical toolbox for the construction and spectral stability analysis of stationary multiple front and pulse solutions to general semilinear evolution problems on the real line with spatially…

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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 describe the resulting spatiotemporal dynamics when a homogeneous equilibrium loses stability in a spatially extended system. More precisely, we consider reaction-diffusion systems, assuming only that the reaction kinetics undergo a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Montie Avery

We investigate a two-component reaction-diffusion system with a slow-fast structure and spatially varying coefficients $f_1$ and $f_2$ appearing in the slow equation. Under mild boundedness and regularity conditions on $f_1$ and $f_2$ the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 M. Chirilus-Bruckner , L. van Vianen , F. Veerman

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

In a scalar reaction-diffusion equation, it is known that the stability of a steady state can be determined from the Maslov index, a topological invariant that counts the state's critical points. In particular, this implies that pulse…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Margaret Beck , Graham Cox , Christopher Jones , Yuri Latushkin , Kelly McQuighan , Alim Sukhtayev

Using pointwise semigroup techniques, we establish sharp rates of decay in space and time of a perturbed reaction diffusion front to its time-asymptotic limit. This recovers results of Sattinger, Henry and others of time-exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Yingwei Li

We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable travelling wave solutions to the deterministic system retain their orbital stability if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 C. H. S. Hamster , H. J. Hupkes

A general system of n ordinary differential equations coupled with one reaction-diffusion equation, considered in a bounded N-dimensional domain, with no-flux boundary condition is studied in a context of pattern formation. Such initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Szymon Cygan , Grzegorz Karch , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Kanako Suzuki

This paper is concerned with the existence and qualitative properties of pulsating fronts for spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities. We focus especially on the influence of the spatial period and,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Weiwei Ding , Francois Hamel , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

We investigate the instabilities and bifurcations of traveling pulses in a model excitable medium; in particular we discuss three different scenarios for the loss of stability resp. the disappearance of stable pulses. In numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Or-Guil , J. Krishnan , I. G. Kevrekidis , M. Bar

Planar wave trains are traveling wave solutions whose wave profiles are periodic in one spatial direction and constant in the transverse direction. In this paper, we investigate the stability of planar wave trains in reaction-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Björn de Rijk , Björn Sandstede

We study travelling wave solutions of a 1D continuum model for collective cell migration in which cells are characterised by position and polarity. Four different types of travelling wave solutions are identified which represent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Nizhum Rahman , Robert Marangell , Dietmar Oelz

It has long been a standard practice to neglect diffusive effects in stability analyses of detonation waves. Here, with the principal aim of quantifying the impact of these oft-neglected effects on the stability characteristics of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

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

Numerous studies have examined the growth dynamics of Wolbachia within populations and the resultant rate of spatial spread. This spread is typically characterised as a travelling wave with bistable local growth dynamics due to a strong…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Matthew H. Chan , Peter S. Kim , Robert Marangell

We study by a combination of numerical and analytical Evans function techniques the stability of solitary wave solutions of the St. Venant equations for viscous shallow-water flow down an incline, and related models. Our main result is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity are considered under general assumptions. The existence of stationary solutions with a single internal transition layer in such reaction-diffusion systems is shown using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Hideo Ikeda , Masataka Kuwamura

We prove that the steady state of a class of multidimensional reaction-diffusion systems is asymptotically stable at the intersection of unweighted space and exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces, and pay particular attention to a special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Qingxia Li , Xinyao Yang

In this paper, extending previous results of \cite{J1}, we obtain pointwise nonlinear stability of periodic traveling reaction-diffusion waves, assuming spectral linearized stability, under nonlocalized perturbations. More precisely, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Soyeun Jung , Kevin Zumbrun