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We consider the singular limit of a bistable reaction diffusion equation in the case when the velocity of the traveling wave solution depends on the space variable and converges to a discontinuous function. We show that the family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Cecilia De Zan , Pierpaolo Soravia

We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

We consider spatially discrete bistable reaction-diffusion equations that admit wave front solutions. Depending on the parameters involved, such wave fronts appear to be pinned or to glide at a certain speed. We study the transition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

We present theory and experiments on the dynamics of reaction fronts in two-dimensional, vortex-dominated flows, for both time-independent and periodically driven cases. We find that the front propagation process is controlled by one-sided…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 John Mahoney , Dylan Bargteil , Mark Kingsbury , Kevin Mitchell , Tom Solomon

We study invasion fronts and spreading speeds in two component reaction-diffusion systems. Using a variation of Lin's method, we construct traveling front solutions and show the existence of a bifurcation to locked fronts where both…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-04 Gregory Faye , Matt Holzer

We consider a stochastically perturbed reaction diffusion equation in a bounded interval, with boundary conditions imposing the two stable phases at the endpoints. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the front separating the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 L. Bertini , S. Brassesco , P. Buttà

We consider one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations for a large class of spatially periodic nonlinearities (including multistable ones) and study the asymptotic behavior of solutions with Heaviside type initial data. Our analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Arnaud Ducrot , Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

A horizontal $N$-dimensional plane, having a diffusion of its own, exchanges with the lower half space. There, a reaction-diffusion process, modelled by a free boundary problem, takes place. We wish to understand whether, and how, the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Luis A. Caffarelli , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Ignacio Tomasetti

In this paper, we focus on the existence of propagation fronts, solutions to non-local dispersion reaction models. Our aim is to provide a unified proof of this existence in a very broad framework using simple real analysis tools. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville

Reaction-diffusion equations describe various spatially extended processes that unfold as traveling fronts moving at constant velocity. We introduce and solve analytically a model that, besides such fronts, supports solutions advancing as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Louis Brezin , Kyle J. Shaffer , Kirill S. Korolev

We propose a time-domain boundary integral method to model linear wave propagation with refractive, focusing, and Doppler effects arising from medium heterogeneities and moving obstacles. In contrast to existing techniques, our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Raaghav Ramani

This paper is concerned with curved fronts of bistable reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media for dimensions $N\geq 2$. The curved fronts concerned are transition fronts connecting $0$ and $1$. Under a priori assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Hongjun Guo , Haijian Wang

We give an explicit formula for the change of speed of pushed and bistable fronts of the reaction diffusion equation when a small cutoff is applied at the unstable or metastable equilibrium point. The results are valid for arbitrary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier , V. Haikala

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 revisit the problem of pinning a reaction-diffusion front by a defect, in particular by a reaction-free region. Using collective variables for the front and numerical simulations, we compare the behaviors of a bistable and monostable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-31 Jean-Guy Caputo , Gustavo Cruz-Pacheco , Benoit Sarels

We consider a monostable time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation arising from population dynamics models. We let a small parameter tend to zero and investigate the behavior of the solutions. We construct accurate lower barriers --- by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Matthieu Alfaro , Arnaud Ducrot

We deal with heteroclinic planar fronts for parameter-dependent reaction-diffusion equations with bistable reaction and saturating diffusive term like $$ u_t=\epsilon \, \textrm{div}\, \left(\frac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1+\vert \nabla u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Maurizio Garrione

We discuss the problem of fronts propagating into metastable and unstable states. We examine the time development of the leading edge, discovering a precursor which in the metastable case propagates out ahead of the front at a velocity more…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 David A. Kessler , Zvi Ner , Leonard M. Sander

Diffusion of particles through an heterogenous obstacle line is modeled as a two-dimensional diffusion problem with a one--directional nonlinear convective drift and is examined using two-scale asymptotic analysis. At the scale where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Ida de Bonis , Adrian Muntean , Omar Richardson

Diffusion of point-like non interacting particles in a two-dimensional (2D) channel of varying cross section is considered. The particles are biased by a constant force in the transverse direction. We apply our recurrence mapping procedure,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pavol Kalinay