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We analyze the dynamics of pattern forming fronts which propagate into an unstable state, and whose dynamics is of the pulled type, so that their asymptotic speed is equal to the linear spreading speed v^*. We discuss a method that allows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ute Ebert , Willem Spruijt , Wim van Saarloos

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of KPP type in one spatial dimension, perturbed by a Fisher-Wright white noise, under the assumption of uniqueness in distribution. Examples include the randomly perturbed Fisher-KPP equations $…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-20 Carl Mueller , Leonid Mytnik , Jeremy Quastel

In this paper, we prove the existence of the spreading speed of nonlocal KPP equations in two cases: 1. The media is almost periodic and the kernel of diffusion is continuous; 2. The media is periodic and the diffusion is not continuous but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Xing Liang , Tao Zhou

We consider Fisher-KPP-type reaction-diffusion equations with spatially inhomogeneous reaction rates. We show that a sufficiently strong localized inhomogeneity may prevent existence of transition-front-type global in time solutions while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 James Nolen , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Lenya Ryzhik , Andrej Zlatos

We investigate the dynamics of a particle moving randomly along a disordered hetero-polymer subjected to rapid conformational changes which induce superdiffusive motion in chemical coordinates. We study the antagonistic interplay between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Brockmann , T. Geisel

Elastic interfaces in quenched random media driven by external forces exhibit a continuous depinning phase transition between pinned and moving phases at a critical external force. Recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175701 (2022)] has shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Tuuli Sillanpää , Sanni Nousiainen , Lasse Laurson

We present a general framework which can be used to prove that, in an annealed sense, rescaled spatial stochastic population models converge to generalized propagating fronts. Our work is motivated by recent results of Etheridge, Freeman,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Thomas Hughes , Jessica Lin

The dynamics of a population expanding into unoccupied habitat has been primarily studied for situations in which growth and dispersal parameters are uniform in space or vary in one dimension. Here we study the influence of finite-sized…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-21 Wolfram Möbius , Francesca Tesser , Kim M. J. Alards , Roberto Benzi , David R. Nelson , Federico Toschi

We study the emergence and dynamics of pulled fronts described by the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (FKPP) equation in the microscopic reaction-diffusion process A + A <-> A$ on the lattice when only a particle is allowed per site.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Esteban Moro

Self-sustained reaction fronts in a disordered medium subject to an external flow display self-affine roughening, pinning and depinning transitions. We measure spatial and temporal fluctuations of the front in $1+1$ dimensions, controlled…

We investigated the propagation of turbulent fronts in pipe flow at high Reynolds numbers by direct numerical simulation. We used a technique combining a moving frame of reference and an artificial damping to isolate the fronts in short…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-09 Kaiwen Chen , Duo Xu , Baofang Song

We have studied the propagation of a crack front along the heterogeneous weak plane of a transparent poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) block using two different loading conditions: imposed constant velocity and creep relaxation. We have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-29 Ken Tore Tallakstad , Renaud Toussaint , Stéphane Santucci , Jean Schmittbuhl , Knut Jørgen Måløy

We consider the wave propagation for a reaction-diffusion equation on the real line, with a random drift and Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) type nonlinear reaction. We show that when the average drift is positive, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dihang Guan , Hui He , Wenqing Hu , Jiaojiao Yang

This paper establishes the spectral stability in exponentially weighted spaces of smooth traveling monotone fronts for reaction diffusion equations of Fisher-KPP type with nonlinear degenerate diffusion coefficient. It is assumed that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-02 J. Francisco Leyva , Ramon G. Plaza

This paper is devoted to propagation phenomena for a reaction-diffusion-advection equation in a one-dimensional heterogeneous environment, where heterogeneity is reflected by the nonlinearity term -- being KPP type on $(-\infty, -L]$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Xing Liang , Lei Zhang , Mingmin Zhang

We analyze the transition between pulled and pushed fronts both analytically and numerically from a model-independent perspective. Based on minimal conceptual assumptions, we show that pushed fronts bifurcate from a branch of pulled fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Montie Avery , Matt Holzer , Arnd Scheel

Using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations we study the propagation of planar fronts in superconductors, which would appear after a quench to zero applied magnetic field. Our numerical solutions show that the fronts propagate at a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. John Di Bartolo , Alan T. Dorsey

We consider a certain lattice branching random walk with on-site competition and in an environment which is heterogeneous at a macroscopic scale $1/\varepsilon$ in space and time. This can be seen as a model for the spatial dynamics of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Pascal Maillard , Gaël Raoul , Julie Tourniaire

In this paper, we prove via counterexamples that adding an advection term of the form Shear flow (whose streamlines are parallel to the direction of propagation) to a reaction-diffusion equation will be an enough heterogeneity to spoil the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Mohammad El Smaily

We consider a generalization of the FKPP equation for the evolution of the spatial density of a single-species population where all the terms are nonlocal. That is, the spatial extension of each process (growth, competition and diffusion)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 G. G. Piva , E. H. Colombo , C. Anteneodo