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We study the front of the solution to the F-KPP equation with randomized non-linearity. Under suitable assumptions on the randomness involving spatial mixing behavior and boundedness, we show that the front of the solution lags at most…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Alexander Drewitz , Lars Schmitz

The minimal speeds ($c^*$) of the Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) fronts at small diffusion ($\epsilon \ll 1$) in a class of time-periodic cellular flows with chaotic streamlines is investigated in this paper. The variational principle…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Penghe Zu , Long Chen , Jack Xin

Premixed turbulent flames, encountered in power generation and propulsion engines, are an archetype of a randomly advected, self-propagating surface. While such a flame is known to exhibit large-scale intermittent flapping, the possible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-07 Amitesh Roy , Jason Ryan Picardo , Benjamin Emerson , Tim C. Lieuwen , Raman I. Sujith

We consider a Fisher-KPP equation with density-dependent diffusion and advection, arising from a chemotaxis-growth model. We study its behavior as a small parameter, related to the thickness of a diffuse interface, tends to zero. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Matthieu Alfaro , Elisabeth Logak

We study numerically the evolution of one-dimensional FKPP fronts initiated from steep initial conditions in the presence of a quenched random growth rate. Compared to both the homogeneous case (with velocity $v_0$) and deterministic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-15 Ulysse Marquis , Henri Berestycki , Marc Barthelemy

We have used kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations of a lattice gas to study front fluctuations in the spreading of a non-volatile liquid droplet onto a solid substrate. Our results are consistent with a diffusive growth law for the radius…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-30 J. M. Marcos , P. Rodríguez-López , J. J. Melendez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

We study the Fisher-KPP equation where the Laplacian is replaced by the generator of a Feller semigroup with power decaying kernel, an important example being the fractional Laplacian. In contrast with the case of the stan- dard Laplacian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Xavier Cabre , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

By extending our {\it victory} implementation of the parquet approach to include non-local Coulomb interactions, we study the extended Hubbard model on the two-dimensional square lattice with a particular focus on the competition of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-09 Petra Pudleiner , Anna Kauch , Karsten Held , Gang Li

This paper is concerned with spreading properties of space-time heterogeneous Fisher--KPP equations in one space dimension. We focus on the case of everywhere favorable environment with three different zones, a left half-line with slow or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Thomas Giletti , Léo Girardin , Hiroshi Matano

We consider stochastic energy balance and entropy production (EP) in a generalized Langevin dynamics of macrospins, allowing for both amplitude and direction fluctuations, under external magnetic field. EP is calculated using Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-09 Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Debasish Chaudhuri , A. M. Jayannavar

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 present a (heuristic) theoretical derivation for the scaling of the diffusion coefficient $D_f$ for fluctuating ``pulled'' fronts. In agreement with earlier numerical simulations, we find that as $N\to\infty$, $D_f$ approaches zero as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debabrata Panja

We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Lionel Roques

We aim to efficiently compute spreading speeds of reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) fronts in divergence free random flows under the Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity. We study a stochastic interacting particle method (IPM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tan Zhang , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

The derivation of a Moving Boundary Approximation or of the response of a coherent structure like a front, vortex or pulse to external forces and noise, is generally valid under two conditions: the existence of a separation of time scales…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

We analyze the transition between pulled and pushed fronts both analytically and numerically from a model-independent perspective. Based on minimal conceptual assumptions, we show that pushed fronts bifurcate from a branch of pulled fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Montie Avery , Matt Holzer , Arnd Scheel

Starting from the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov equation (FKPP) we model the dynamic of a diffusive system with two mutually communicating identical patches and isolated of the remaining matrix. For this system we find the minimal…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-10 Daniel Juliano Pamplona da Silva , Renato Pacheco Villar , Lorielen Calixto Ramos

This paper derives the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation for a particle moving in potential by a randomly modulated dipole. The FP equation describes the anomalous diffusion observed in the companion paper [1] and breaks the conservation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 S. Katagiri , Y. Matsuo , Y. Matsuoka , A. Sugamoto

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang