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We propose threshold diffusion processes as unique solutions to stochastic differential equations with step-function coefficients, and obtain explicit expressions for the conditional Laplace transform of the hitting times and the potential…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Lina Ji , Chuyang Li , Xiaowen Zhou

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a numerical counterpart of the KPP equation. We obtain the existence of monostable fronts for all super-critical speeds in the regime where the spatial step size is small. The key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Louis Garénaux , Hermen Jan Hupkes

Second initial boundary problem in narrow domains of width $\epsilon\ll 1$ for linear second order differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions is considered in this paper. Using probabilistic methods we show that the solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Mark Freidlin , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

The paper concerns front propagation for the following mono-stable reaction-diffusion-advection equation \[f(u)u_x + g(u)u_\tau = [d(u)|u_x|^{p-2} u_x]_x+ \rho(u), \quad (x,\tau)\in \R\times [0,+\infty).\] Besides existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Cristina Marcelli

We analyze the stability and dynamics of bistable planar fronts in multicomponent reaction-diffusion systems on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. Under standard spectral stability assumptions, we establish Lyapunov stability of the front against fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Björn de Rijk , Joris van Winden

We study the reaction front for the process $A+B\to C$ in which the reagents move subdiffusively. We propose a fractional reaction-subdiffusion equation in which both the motion and the reaction terms are affected by the subdiffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katja Lindenberg , Santos B. Yuste

The dynamic initiation of sliding at planar interfaces between deformable and rigid solids is studied with particular focus on the speed of the slip front. Recent experimental results showed a close relation between this speed and the local…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-22 David S. Kammer , Vladislav A. Yastrebov , Peter Spijker , Jean-François Molinari

Predicting the future behaviour of complex systems exhibiting critical-like dynamics is often considered to be an intrinsically hard task. Here, we study the predictability of the depinning dynamics of elastic interfaces in random media…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Valtteri Haavisto , Marcin Mińkowski , Lasse Laurson

Reaction-diffusion problems are often described at a macroscopic scale by partial derivative equations of the type of the Fisher or Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equation. These equations have a continuous family of front solutions, each…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

We present strongly stable semi-discrete finite difference approximations to the quarter space problem (x>0, t>0) for the first order in time, second order in space wave equation with a shift term. We consider space-like (pure outflow) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Gioel Calabrese , Carsten Gundlach

In this paper we address the large-time behavior of solutions of bistable and multistable reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuities around the stable steady states. We show that the solution always converges to a special solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Thomas Giletti , Ho-Youn Kim

Invasion phenomena for heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations are contemporary and challenging questions in applied mathematics. In this paper we are interested in the question of spreading for a reaction-diffusion equation when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Juliette Bouhours , Thomas Giletti

In this work we perform rigorous small noise expansions to study the impact of stochastic forcing on the behaviour of planar travelling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion equations on cylindrical domains. In particular, we use a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Mark van den Bosch , Christian H. S. Hamster , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We are concerned with travelling wave solutions arising in a reaction diffusion equation with bistable and nonlocal nonlinearity, for which the comparison principle does not hold. Stability of the equilibrium $u\equiv 1$ is not assumed. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Matthieu Alfaro , Jerome Coville , Gael Raoul

This paper presents results on the unboundedness and minimal speed of traveling wave solutions for a one-dimensional spatial reaction-diffusion equation with an asymptotically linear reaction term and a saturation parameter. By applying a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yu Ichida

Bifurcations of solitary waves propagating along the interface between two ideal fluids are considered. The study is based on a Hamiltonian approach. It concentrates on values of the density ratio close to a critical one, where the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Agafontsev , F. Dias , E. A. Kuznetsov

We study the existence of monotone heteroclinic traveling waves for a general Fisher-Burgers equation with nonlinear and possibly density-dependent diffusion. Such a model arises, for instance, in physical phenomena where a saturation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Maurizion Garrione , Marta Strani

There are a number of situations in which rescaled interacting particle systems have been shown to converge to a reaction diffusion equation (RDE) with a bistable reaction term. These RDEs have traveling wave solutions. When the speed of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Xiangying Huang , Rick Durrett

Critical transitions (or tipping points) are drastic sudden changes observed in many dynamical systems. Large classes of critical transitions are associated to systems, which drift slowly towards a bifurcation point. In the context of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Christian Kuehn , Francesco Romano

We study the influence of the boundary conditions at the solid liquid interface on diffusion in a confined fluid. Using an hydrodynamic approach, we compute numerical estimates for the diffusion of a particle confined between two planes.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Anthony Saugey , Laurent Joly , Christophe Ybert , Jean-Louis Barrat , Lyderic Bocquet