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We consider a two-species reaction-diffusion system in one space dimension that is derived from an epidemiological model in a spatially periodic environment with two types of pathogens: the wild type and the mutant. The system is of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Quentin Griette , Hiroshi Matano

The current paper is devoted to the study of spreading speeds and transition fronts of lattice KPP equations in time heterogeneous media. We first prove the existence, uniqueness, and stability of spatially homogeneous entire positive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Feng Cao , Wenxian Shen

We consider here a model of accelerating fronts, introduced in [2], consisting of one equation with nonlocal diffusion on a line, coupled via the boundary condition with a reaction-diffusion equation of the Fisher-KPP type in the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Anne-Charline Chalmin , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

Fronts that start from a local perturbation and propagate into a linearly unstable state come in two classes: pulled and pushed. ``Pulled'' fronts are ``pulled along'' by the spreading of linear perturbations about the unstable state, so…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

Frontal polymerization (FP) enables rapid curing of thermosets via a self-sustaining thermal wave, but its propagation mechanism can shift dramatically depending on processing conditions. In this study, we investigate the effect of trigger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 M Vijay Kumar , Saujatya Mandal , Siddhant Jain , Saptarshi Basu , Debashish Das

Recently it has been shown that when an equation that allows so-called pulled fronts in the mean-field limit is modelled with a stochastic model with a finite number $N$ of particles per correlation volume, the convergence to the speed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debabrata Panja , Wim van Saarloos

In this paper, some properties of the minimal speeds of pulsating Fisher-KPP fronts in periodic environments are established. The limit of the speeds at the homogenization limit is proved rigorously. Near this limit, generically, the fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Mohammad El Smaily , Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

We study the velocity of travelling waves of a reaction-diffusion system coupling a standard reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a one-dimensional diffusion equation on a line. We show that it grows like the square root of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Laurent Dietrich

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the large-time behavior of solutions of one-dimensional Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations. The initial conditions are assumed to be globally front-like and to decay at infinity towards the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

We study the asymptotics of front speeds of the reaction-diffusion equations with Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity and zero mean stationary ergodic Gaussian shear advection on the entire plane. By exploiting connections of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Xin

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 analyze spreading of a density front in the K\"untz-Lavall\'ee model of porous media. In contrast to previous studies, where unusual properties of the front were attributed to anomalous diffusion, we find that the front evolution is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maciej Matyka , Zbigniew Koza

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 study KPP pulsating front speed-up and effective diffusivity enhancement by general periodic incompressible flows. We prove the existence of and determine the limits $c^*(A)/A$ and $D(A)/A^2$ as $A\to\infty$, where $c^*(A)$ is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-05 Andrej Zlatos

We study flow-induced enhancement of the speed of pulsating traveling fronts for reaction-diffusion equations, and quenching of reaction by fluid flows. We prove, for periodic flows in two dimensions and any combustion-type reaction, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-27 Andrej Zlatos

We consider the effect of a shear flow which has, without loss of generality, a zero mean flow rate, on a Kolmogorov--Petrovskii--Piscounov (KPP) type model in the presence of a discontinuous cut-off at concentration $u = u_c$. Its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-25 D. J. Needham , A. Tzella

We establish spreading properties of the Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion system. When the initial data vanish on a right half-line, we derive the exact spreading speeds and prove the convergence to homogeneous equilibrium states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Qian Liu , Shuang Liu , King-Yeung Lam

We study the front of the solution to the F-KPP equation with randomized non-linearity. Under suitable assumptions on the randomness involving spatial mixing behavior and boundedness, we show that the front of the solution lags at most…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Alexander Drewitz , Lars Schmitz

Epidemic spreading often occurs in spatially heterogeneous environments, yet how quenched heterogeneity reshapes its onset and critical dynamics remains poorly understood. The diffusive epidemic process, a minimal reaction-diffusion model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Valentin Anfray , Hong-Yan Shih

The current paper is concerned with positive stationary solutions and spatial spreading speeds of KPP type evolution equations with random or nonlocal or discrete dispersal in locally spatially inhomogeneous media. It is shown that such an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Liang Kong , Wenxian Shen