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The Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equation provides a mean-field theory of out-of-time-ordered commutators in locally interacting quantum chaotic systems at high energy density; in the systems with power-law interactions, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Tianci Zhou , Andrew Y. Guo , Shenglong Xu , Xiao Chen , Brian Swingle

The problem of velocity selection for reaction fronts has been intensively investigated, leading to the successful marginal stability approach for propagation into an unstable state. Because the front velocity is controlled by the leading…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Leonid Pechenik , Herbert Levine

We study the diffusion-limited reaction A + A <-> A in different spatial dimensions to observe the effect of internal fluctuations on the interface between stable and unstable phases. We find that, similar to what has been observed in d=1…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Esteban Moro

We introduce a novel numerical method for direct simulation of front propagation in the Fisher-KPP equation with a time-dependent parameter on an infinite domain. The method computes a time-dependent boundary condition that accurately…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-12 Troy Tsubota , Smridhi Mahajan , Adrian van Kan , Edgar Knobloch

This work evaluates the magnitude of the turbulent energy cascade in terms of forward and backward scattering by modeling the "stretch and fold" mechanism through a drift-free Hanggi-Klimontovich stochastic process. Mapping this dynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Nicola de Divitiis

We study reaction-diffusion particle systems with several interaction mechanisms. As the number of particles tends to infinity, the system admits a mean-field limit describing the bulk behaviour. We focus on determining the propagation…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Matthieu Jonckheere , Seva Shneer

A wave front of Fisher and Kolmogorov, Petrovskii, and Piskunov type involving two species A and B with different diffusion coefficients $D_A$ and $D_B$ is studied using a master equation approach in dilute and concentrated solutions.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-26 Gabriel Morgado , Bogdan Nowakowski , Annie Lemarchand

We study the asymptotic spreading of Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) fronts in heterogeneous shifting habitats, with any number of shifting speeds, by further developing the method based on the theory of viscosity solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 King-Yeung Lam , Xiao Yu

We consider a diffusive Rosenzweig-MacArthur predator-prey model in the situation when the prey diffuses at the rate much smaller than that of the predator. In a certain parameter regime, the existence of fronts in the system is known: the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Anna Ghazaryan , Stéphane Lafortune , Yuri Latushkin , Vahagn Manukian

We study a particle system with the following diffusion-branching-selection mechanism. Particles perform independent one dimensional Brownian motions and on top of that, at a constant rate, a pair of particles is chosen uniformly at random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Pablo Groisman , Matthieu Jonckheere , Julián Martínez

We consider here a model of accelerating fronts, introduced in [2], consisting of one equation with nonlocal diffusion on a line, coupled via the boundary condition with a reaction-diffusion equation of the Fisher-KPP type in the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Anne-Charline Chalmin , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

I give a physical discussion of the influence of particle number fluctuations on the high energy evolution in QCD. I emphasize the event-by-event description and the correspondence with the problem of `fluctuating pulled fronts' in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Edmond Iancu

We uncover a seemingly previously unnoticed algebraic structure of a large class of reaction-diffusion equations and use it, in particular, to study the long time behavior of the solutions and their convergence to traveling waves in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik

We investigate the inside structure of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion traveling fronts. The reaction terms are of the monostable, bistable or ignition types. Assuming that the fronts are made of several components with identical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Jimmy Garnier , Thomas Giletti , Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

We study the dynamics of inertial particles in turbulence using datasets obtained from both direct numerical simulations and laboratory experiments of turbulent swirling flows. By analyzing time series of particle velocity increments at…

We study nonlinear stability of pulled fronts in scalar parabolic equations on the real line of arbitrary order, under conceptual assumptions on existence and spectral stability of fronts. In this general setting, we establish sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Montie Avery , Arnd Scheel

We investigate the influence of fluid flows on the propagation of chemical fronts arising in FKPP type models. We develop an asymptotic theory for the front speed in a cellular flow in the limit of small molecular diffusivity and fast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-16 Alexandra Tzella , Jacques Vanneste

The propagation of fronts in the Fisher-Kolmogorov equation with spatially varying diffusion coefficients is studied. Using coordinate changes, WKB approximations, and multiple scales analysis, we provide an analytic framework that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Christopher W. Curtis , David M. Bortz

We prove the existence of traveling fronts in diffusive Rosenzweig-MacArthur and Holling-Tanner population models and investigate their relation with fronts in a scalar Fisher-KPP equation. More precisely, we prove the existence of fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Hong Cai , Anna Ghazaryan , Vahagn Manukian

We study front propagation and diffusion in the reaction-diffusion system A $\leftrightharpoons$ A + A on a lattice. On each lattice site at most one A particle is allowed at any time. In this paper, we analyze the problem in the full range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debabrata Panja , Goutam Tripathy , Wim van Saarloos