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We present a model for the thermally activated propagation of cracks in elastic matrices. The propagation is considered as a subcritical phenomenon, the kinetics of which being described by an Arrhenius law. In this law, we take the thermal…

The propagation of a crack front in disordered materials is jerky and characterized by bursts of activity, called avalanches. These phenomena are the manifestation of an out-of-equilibrium phase transition originated by the disorder. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-14 Clément Le Priol , Julien Chopin , Pierre Le Doussal , Laurent Ponson , Alberto Rosso

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

The dynamics of a thin Huygens front propagating through turbulent medium is considered. A rigorous asymptotic expression for the effective velocity $v_{F}$ proportional to the front area is derived. The small-scale fluctuations of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Chertkov , V. Yakhot

In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion system describing the propagation of flames under the assumption of ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order. It was shown in [3] that this system admits a traveling front…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Amanda Matson , Claude-Michel Brauner , Peter V. Gordon

We consider the 1D motion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a general potential in the low temperature limit. We derive an explicit expression for the probability distribution for the heat transferred to the particle. We find that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hans C. Fogedby , Alberto Imparato

An approximate theory is presented describing the propagation of the ice-water front that develops in droplets of water that are deposited on a planar surface at a temperature below the melting point of ice. A calculation based on this…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-25 Michael Nauenberg

We analyze numerically a moving interface in the random-field Ising model which is driven by a magnetic field. Without thermal fluctuations the system displays a depinning phase transition, i.e., the interface is pinned below a certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Roters , S. Lubeck , K. D. Usadel

We study the mean-field version of a model proposed by Leschhorn to describe the depinning transition of interfaces in random media. We show that evolution equations for the distribution of forces felt by the interface sites can be written…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Vannimenus , B. Derrida

The front dynamics in the Harper (or Aubry-Andr\'e) model (which has a localization transition) is investigated using two different settings, particle number front where the system is at zero temperature, and initially, the particle numbers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-06 Gergo Roosz

We study front propagation in the reaction diffusion process $\{A\stackrel{\epsilon}\to2A, A\stackrel {\epsilon_t}\to3A\}$ on a one dimensional (1d) lattice with hard core interaction between the particles. Using the leading particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Niraj Kumar , Goutam Tripathy

The problem of front propagation in flowing media is addressed for laminar velocity fields in two dimensions. Three representative cases are discussed: stationary cellular flow, stationary shear flow, and percolating flow. Production terms…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Abel , A. Celani , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

The problem of velocity selection of reaction-diffusion fronts has been widely investigated. While the mean field limit results are well known theoretically, there is a lack of analytic progress in those cases in which fluctuations are to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos Escudero

Propagation of traveling fronts in three-dimensional reaction-diffusion media with spatially modulated cross-section is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Applying appropriate perturbation techniques leads first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-26 S. Martens , J. Löber , H. Engel

Propagating fronts are seen in varieties of non-equilibrium pattern forming systems in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. In the last two decades, many researchers have contributed to the understanding of the underlying dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 Debabrata Panja

We have studied the front propagation in a one dimensional case of combustion by solving numerically an advection-reaction-diffusion equation. The physical model is simplified so that no coupling phenomena are considered and the reacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-07 Federico Bianco , Sergio Chibbaro , Roger Prud'homme

Spontaneous pattern formation in living systems is driven by reaction-diffusion chemistry and active mechanics. The feedback between chemical and mechanical forces is often essential to robust pattern formation, yet it remains poorly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Clara del Junco , André Estevez-Torres , Ananyo Maitra

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

The devastating effects of wildfires on the wildlife and their impact on human lives and properties are undeniable. This shows the importance of studying the spread of wildfire, predicting its behavior and presenting more reliable models…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Hengameh R. Dehkordi

Non-equilibrium dissipative systems usually exhibit multistability, leading to the presence of propagative domain between steady states. We investigate the front propagation into an unstable state in discrete media. Based on a paradigmatic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-03 K. Alfaro-Bittner , M. G. Clerc , M. A. Garcia-Nustes , R. G. Rojas