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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Izabella J. Benczik , Jürgen Vollmer

We introduce a model of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations to describe the dynamics and propagation of flame fronts in random media. The model incorporates heat diffusion, its dissipation, and its production through coupling to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 N. Provatas , T. Ala-Nissila , M. Grant , K. R. Elder , L. Piché

This paper is concerned with the propagation phenomenon of the combustion reaction-diffusion equations in domains with multiple cylindrical branches. We first show that there is an entire solution emanating from planar traveling fronts in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng , Zhi-Cheng Wang

Nonlinear waves are a robust phenomenon observed in complex systems ranging from mechanics to ecology. Fronts are fundamental due to their robustness against perturbations and capacity to propagate one state over another. Controlling and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-14 David Pinto-Ramos

We consider a degenerate abstract wave equation with a time-dependent propagation speed. We investigate the influence of a strong dissipation, namely a friction term that depends on a power of the elastic operator. We discover a threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino

We study travelling fronts of equations of the form $u_{tt} + \phi(u) u_x = u_{xx} + f(u)$. A criterion for the transition from linear to nonlinear marginal stability is established for positive functions $\phi(u)$ and for any reaction term…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

Propagating fronts arising from bistable reaction-diffusion equations are a purely deterministic effect. Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes also show front propagation which coincides with the deterministic effect in the limit of small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Khain , Y. T. Lin , L. M. Sander

We study the spectral stability of travelling and stationary front and pulse solutions in a class of degenerate reaction-diffusion systems. We characterise the essential spectrum of the linearised operator in full generality and identify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 R. Marangell , J. J. Wylie , B. H. Bradshaw-Hajek

The fast diffusion equation is analyzed on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions, for which solutions are known to extinct in finite time. We construct invariant manifolds that provide a finite-dimensional approximation near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Beomjun Choi , Christian Seis

In this note, we give constructive upper and lower bounds for the minimal speed of propagation of traveling waves for non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-16 Maitere Aguerrea , Gabriel Valenzuela

Stationary solutions to the equations of non-linear diffusive shock acceleration play a fundamental role in the theory of cosmic-ray acceleration. Their existence usually requires that a fraction of the accelerated particles be allowed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 B. Reville , J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy

Many monostable reaction-diffusion equations admit one-dimensional travelling waves if and only if the wave speed is sufficiently high. The values of these minimum wave speeds are not known exactly, except in a few simple cases. We present…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Jason J. Bramburger , David Goluskin

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a reaction-diffusion equation with state-dependent delay. When the birth function is monotone, the existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions are established.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Guo Lin , Haiyan Wang

We study stability of monostable waves for reaction-diffusion systems. When the solution is initially close to a fast wave profile in optimal topology, we prove convergence to a shifted profile. The proof relies on explicit resolvent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Louis Garénaux

This paper is concerned with the critical sharp traveling wave for doubly nonlinear diffusion equation with time delay, where the doubly nonlinear degenerate diffusion is defined by $\Big(\big|(u^m)_x\big|^{p-2}(u^m)_x\Big)_x$ with $m>0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

We study traveling waves for reaction diffusion equations on the spatially discrete domain $\Z^2$. The phenomenon of crystallographic pinning occurs when traveling waves become pinned in certain directions despite moving with non-zero wave…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-11-04 A. Hoffman , J. Mallet-Paret

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

We consider a family of controlled reaction-diffusion equations, describing the spatial spreading of an invasive biological species. For a given propagation speed $c\in{I\!\!R}$, we seek a control with minimum cost, which achieves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Alberto Bressan , Minyan Zhang

A modified method of functional constraints is used to construct the exact solutions of nonlinear equations of reaction-diffusion type with delay and which are associated with variable coefficients. This study considers a most generalized…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-10-26 M. O. Aibinu , S. C. Thakur , S. Moyo

We study the planar front solution for a class of reaction diffusion equations in multidimensional space in the case when the essential spectrum of the linearization in the direction of the front touches the imaginary axis. At the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Anna Ghazaryan , Yuri Latushkin , Xinyao Yang