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We investigate wavefront solutions in a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t = n_{xx} - nb, \quad b_t = [D nbb_x]_x + nb,\] where $t\geq0,$ $x\in\mathbb{R}$, and $D$ is a positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Luisa Malaguti , Elisa Sovrano

We consider a nonlocal semi-linear parabolic equation on a connected exterior domain of the form $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus K$, where $K\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ is a compact "obstacle". The model we study is motivated by applications in biology and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Julien Brasseur , Jérôme Coville

We devote this paper to the issue of existence of pulsating travelling front solutions for spatially periodic heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations in arbitrary dimension, in both bistable and more general multistable frameworks. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Thomas Giletti , Luca Rossi

Mechanical metamaterials can be designed to exhibit unique mechanical properties, including tunable auxetic behavior as well as multi-stability, which arise from the geometry and configuration of the constituent building blocks.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Jochem G. Meijer , Faadil Shaik , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We study 2D fronts propagating up a co-moving reaction rate gradient in finite number reaction-diffusion systems. We show that in a 2D rectangular channel, planar solutions to the deterministic mean-field equation are stable with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Scott Wylie , Herbert Levine , David A. Kessler

We study a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system which describes an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction involving both a quadratic (A + B -> 2B) and a cubic (A + 2B -> 3B) autocatalysis. The parameters of this system are the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephane Focant , Thierry Gallay

We consider planar traveling fronts between stable steady states in two-component singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion-advection equations, where a small quantity $\delta^2$ represents the ratio of diffusion coefficients. The fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Paul Carter

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We consider a single-species diffusion-limited annihilation reaction with reactants confined to a two-dimensional surface with one arbitrarily large dimension and the other comparable in size to interparticle distances. This situation could…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-20 Aleksandr Kivenson , Michael F. Hagan

We numerically study the propagation of reacting fronts in a shallow and horizontal layer of fluid with solutal feedback and in the presence of a thermally driven flow field of counter-rotating convection rolls. We solve the Boussinesq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-01 S. Mukherjee , M. R. Paul

We investigate the effect of a Heaviside cut-off on the front propagation dynamics of the so-called Burgers-FisherKolmogoroff-Petrowskii-Piscounov (Burgers-FKPP) advection-reaction-diffusion equation. We prove the existence and uniqueness…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Nikola Popovic , Mariya Ptashnyk , Zak Sattar

This paper is concerned with reaction-diffusion systems of two symmetric species in spatial dimension one, having two stable symmetric equilibria connected by a symmetric standing front. The first order variation of the speed of this front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Emmanuel Risler

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

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

We investigate the inside structure of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion traveling fronts. The reaction terms are of the monostable, bistable or ignition types. Assuming that the fronts are made of several components with identical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Jimmy Garnier , Thomas Giletti , Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

We study front propagation in the reversible reaction-diffusion system A + A <-> A on a 1-d lattice. Extending the idea of leading particle in studying the motion of the front we write a master equation in the stochastically moving frame…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Niraj Kumar , Goutam Tripathy

In this work we study travelling wave solutions to bistable reaction diffusion equations on bi-infinite $k$-ary trees in the continuum regime where the diffusion parameter is large. Adapting the spectral convergence method developed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Mia Jukic

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

We address the direct scattering problem for a penetrable obstacle in an infinite elastic two--dimensional Kirchhoff--Love plate. Under the assumption that the plate's thickness is small relative to the wavelength of the incident wave, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris , Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

Morphogenesis is central to biology but remains largely unexplored in chemistry. Reaction-diffusion (RD) mechanisms are, however, essential to understand how shape emerges in the living world. While numerical methods confirm the incredible…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-07-17 Anton S. Zadorin , Yannick Rondelez , Jean-Christophe Galas , André Estevez-Torres