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This study explores the use of fractional calculus as a possible tool to model wave propagation in complex, heterogeneous media. We illustrate the methodology by focusing on elastic wave propagation in a one-dimensional periodic rod. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 John Hollkamp , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti

We present a formal derivation of a drift-diffusion model for stationary electron transport in graphene, in presence of sharp potential profiles, such as barriers and steps. Assuming the electric potential to have steep variations within a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Luigi Barletti , Claudia Negulescu

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time heterogeneous nonlinearity of ignition type. It is proven that such an equation admits space monotone transition fronts with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

The system under study is a reaction-diffusion equation in a horizontal strip, coupled to a diffusion equation on its upper boundary via an exchange condition of the Robin type. This class of models was introduced by H. Berestycki, L. Rossi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Laurent Dietrich , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

The Ising-Kac model is a variant of the ferromagnetic Ising model in which each spin variable interacts with all spins in a neighbourhood of radius $\gamma^{-1}$ for $\gamma \ll 1$ around its base point. We study the Glauber dynamics for…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Jean-Christophe Mourrat , Hendrik Weber

A Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system driven by correlated Gaussian white noise as well as with positive and negative damping demarcated by a critical velocity. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

We use a new method in the study of Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations to prove existence of transition fronts for inhomogeneous KPP-type non-linearities in one spatial dimension. We also obtain new estimates on entire solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-17 Andrej Zlatos

Mathematical models describing the spatial spreading and invasion of populations of biological cells are often developed in a continuum modelling framework using reaction-diffusion equations. While continuum models based on linear diffusion…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-01-23 Matthew J Simpson , Keeley M Murphy , Scott W McCue , Pascal R Buenzli

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

In a recent paper, we have introduced a new model to describe front propagation in bushfires. This model describes temperature diffusion in view of an ignition process induced by an interaction kernel, the effect of the environmental wind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We introduce a phase-field model to describe the dynamics of a self-sustaining propagating combustion front within a medium of randomly distributed reactants. Numerical simulations of this model show that a flame front exists for reactant…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. Provatas , T. Ala-Nissila , Martin Grant , K. R. Elder , Luc Pich

The resonant energy transfer mechanism, responsible for the presence of fractal patterns in the velocity diagrams of kink-antikink scattering, is analyzed for a family of two-component scalar field theory models, in which the kink solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 A. Alonso-Izquierdo , D. Miguélez-Caballero , L. M. Nieto

We present a numerical study of the process of the kink-antikink collisions in the coupled one-dimensional two-component $\phi^4$ model. Our results reveal two different soliton solutions which represent double kink configuration and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Halavanau , T. Romanczukiewicz , Ya. Shnir

In this paper we develop a new statistical model for the irradiance fluctuations of an unbounded optical wavefront (plane and spherical waves) propagating through a turbulent medium under all irradiance fluctuation conditions in…

The interface separating a liquid from its vapor phase is diffuse: the composition varies continuously from one phase to the other over a finite length. Recent experiments on dynamic jamming fronts in two dimensions [Waitukaitis et al.,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Jikai Wang , J. M. Schwarz , Joseph D. Paulsen

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a system of nonlinear reaction--diffusion--advection equations in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via microscopic channels distributed within a thin membrane. Both the width of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lucas M. Fix , Gianna Götzmann , Malte A. Peter , Jan-F. Pietschmann

Fourier methods well known in signal processing are applied to three-dimensional wave propagation problems. The Fourier transform of the Green function, when written explicitly in terms of a real-valued spatial frequency, consists of…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-21 Colin J. R. Sheppard , Shan Shan Kou , Jiao Lin

A Hamiltonian reduction approach is defined, studied, and finally used to derive asymptotic models of internal wave propagation in density stratified fluids in two-dimensional domains. Beginning with the general Hamiltonian formalism of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni , T. T. Vu Ho

We study reaction-diffusion systems where diffusion is by jumps whose sizes are distributed exponentially. We first study the Fisher-like problem of propagation of a front into an unstable state, as typified by the A+B $\to$ 2A reaction. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler

We consider the spreading dynamics of the Fisher-KPP equation in a shifting environment, by analyzing the limit of the rate function of the solutions. For environments with a weak monotone condition, it was demonstrated in a previous paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 King-Yeung Lam , Gregoire Nadin , Xiao Yu