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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

In this paper, we explore the solvability and the optimal control problem for a compartmental model based on reaction-diffusion partial differential equations describing a transmissible disease. The nonlinear model takes into account the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Gabriela Marinoschi

In spin-lattice models with order parameter conserved, we generalize the idea of spin diffusion incorporating a variety factors as possible driving forces, including the external field and the temperature. The Kawasaki dynamics in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Han Zhu , Jian-Yang Zhu

Transverse oscillations and propagating waves are frequently observed in threads of solar prominences/filaments and have been interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes. We investigate the spatial damping of propagating kink MHD…

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This paper investigates a model containing $\phi^4$ kinks interacting with fermions. The fermion back-reaction is included in the equations of motion, which affects the kink-antikink collisions. We show that the fermion field generates a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-09 João G. F. Campos , Azadeh Mohammadi

We consider the propagation of both fully coherent and partially coherent complex scalar fields, through linear shift-invariant imaging systems. The state of such imaging systems is characterized by a countable infinity of aberration…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 David M. Paganin , Timothy C. Petersen , Mario A. Beltran

In this work we propose a novel space-dependent multiscale model for the spread of infectious diseases in a two-dimensional spatial context on realistic geographical scenarios. The model couples a system of kinetic transport equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Walter Boscheri , Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

We determine the semiclassical energy levels for the \phi^4 field theory in the broken symmetry phase on a 2D cylindrical geometry with antiperiodic boundary conditions by quantizing the appropriate finite--volume kink solutions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Mussardo , V. Riva , G. Sotkov , G. Delfino

In this work, we show that the orthogonality between rays and fronts of light propagation in a medium is expressed in terms of a suitable metric contact structure of the optical medium without boundaries. Moreover, we show that considering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 D. García-Peláez , C. S. López-Monsalvo , A. Rubio Ponce

We present a model of diffusion in heterogeneous environment, which qualitatively reflects the transport properties of a polymeric membrane with carbon nanotubes. We derived Fokker-Planck equation from system of stochastic equations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-19 Ilia Kalashnikov , Polina Likhomanova

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-08 H. Abels , H. Garcke , G. Grün

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

Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

We consider a diffusion process with coefficients that are periodic outside of an "interface region" of finite thickness. The question investigated in this article is the limiting long time/large scale behavior of such a process under…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Martin Hairer , Charles Manson

We describe acceleration of the front propagation for solutions to a class of monostable nonlinear equations with a nonlocal diffusion in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq1$. We show that the acceleration takes place if either the diffusion kernel or…

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Based on Fick's 2nd law the development of moving particle semi-implicit method for predicting diffusion process is proposed in this study

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-07 Ziqi Zhou

We study a model described by a single real scalar field in the two-dimensional space-time. The model is specified by a potential which is non-polynomial and supports analytical kink-like solutions that are similar to the standard kink-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-09 Dionisio Bazeia , Ekaterina Belendryasova , Vakhid A. Gani

We consider the development of hyperbolic transport models for the propagation in space of an epidemic phenomenon described by a classical compartmental dynamics. The model is based on a kinetic description at discrete velocities of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-12 Giulia Bertaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi

We present preliminary results on a novel numerical method describing wave propagation in non-uniform media. Following Huygens-Fresnel' principle, we model the wavefront as an array of point sources that emit wavelets, which interfere. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 F. A. Volpe , P. -D. Letourneau , A. Zhao

An inverse problem of wave propagation into a weakly laterally inhomogeneous medium occupying a half-space is considered in the acoustic approximation. The half-space consists of an upper layer and a semi-infinite bottom separated with an…

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