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We study transition fronts for one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with compactly perturbed ignition-monostable reactions. We establish an almost sharp condition on reactions which characterizes the existence and non-existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Cole Graham , Tau Shean Lim , Andrew Ma , David Weber

We study systems of reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuous spatially distributed hysteresis in the right-hand side. The input of hysteresis is given by a vector-valued function of space and time. Such systems describe hysteretic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Pavel Gurevich , Sergey Tikhomirov

The dynamics of a coupled two-component nonequilibrium system is examined by means of continuum field theory representing the corresponding master equation. Particles of species A may perform hopping processes only when particles of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Trimper , U. C. Taeuber , G. M. Schuetz

In this paper, curved fronts are constructed for spatially periodic bistable reaction-diffusion equations under the a priori assumption that there exist pulsating fronts in every direction. Some sufficient and some necessary conditions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Hongjun Guo , Wan-Tong Li , Rongsong Liu , Zhi-Cheng Wang

Patterns in reaction-diffusion systems often contain two spatial scales; a long scale determined by a typical wavelength or domain size, and a short scale pertaining to front structures separating different domains. Such patterns naturally…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

We study the reaction-fractional-diffusion equation $u_t+(-\Delta)^{s} u=f(u)$ with ignition and monostable reactions $f$, and $s\in(0,1)$. We obtain the first optimal bounds on the propagation of front-like solutions in the cases where no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Yuming Paul Zhang , Andrej Zlatos

In the past the study of reaction-diffusion systems has greatly contributed to our understanding of the behavior of many-body systems far from equilibrium. In this paper we aim at characterizing the properties of diffusion limited reactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

We consider a two-species reaction-diffusion system in one space dimension that is derived from an epidemiological model in a spatially periodic environment with two types of pathogens: the wild type and the mutant. The system is of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Quentin Griette , Hiroshi Matano

The reaction process $A+B->C$ is modelled for ballistic reactants on an infinite line with particle velocities $v_A=c$ and $v_B=-c$ and initially segregated conditions, i.e. all A particles to the left and all B particles to the right of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. J. E. Richardson

We introduce a phase-field model to describe the dynamics of a self-sustaining propagating combustion front within a medium of randomly distributed reactants. Numerical simulations of this model show that a flame front exists for reactant…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. Provatas , T. Ala-Nissila , Martin Grant , K. R. Elder , Luc Pich

We study the transient dynamics of single species reaction diffusion systems whose reaction terms $f(u)$ vary nonlinearly near $u\approx 0$, specifically as $f(u)\approx u^{2}$ and $f(u)\approx u^{3}$. We consider three cases, calculate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Giuggioli , Z. Kalay , V. M. Kenkre

We present a detailed study of the effects of the initial distribution on the kinetic evolution of the irreversible reaction A+B -> 0 in one dimension. Our analytic as well as numerical work is based on a reaction-diffusion model of this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Lindenberg , A. H. Romero , J. M. Sancho

We study the evolution of fronts in a bistable reaction-diffusion system when the nonlinear reaction term is spatially non-homogeneous. This equation has been used to model wave propagation in various biological systems. Extending previous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Horacio G. Rotstein , Anatol M. Zhabotinsky , Irving R. Epstein

We investigate the A+B=0 bimolecular chemical reaction taking place in low-dimensional spaces when the mobilities of the two reacting species are not equal. While the case of different reactant mobilities has been previously reported as not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Panos Argyrakis , Raoul Kopelman

We study a reaction-diffusion process that involves two species of atoms, immobile and diffusing. We assume that initially only immobile atoms, uniformly distributed throughout the entire space, are present. Diffusing atoms are injected at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-18 P. L. Krapivsky

We consider the subdiffusion-reaction process with reactions of a type A+B\arrow B (in which particles A are assumed to be mobile whereas B - static) in comparison to the subdiffusion-reaction process with A\rightarrow B reactions which was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-01 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz , Katarzyna D. Lewandowska

We confront, quantitatively, the theoretical description of the reaction-diffusion of a second order reaction to experiment. The reaction at work is \ca/CaGreen, and the reactor is a T-shaped microchannel, 10 $\mu$m deep, 200 $\mu$m wide,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles N. Baroud , Fridolin Okkels , Laure Menetrier , Patrick Tabeling

The microscopic structure and movement of reaction fronts in reaction diffusion systems far from equilibrium are investigated. We show that some three-site interaction models exhibit exact diffusive shock measures, i.e. domains of different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Paessens , Gunter M. Schuetz

Dynamical reaction-diffusion processes and meta-population models are standard modeling approaches for a wide variety of phenomena in which local quantities - such as density, potential and particles - diffuse and interact according to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Colizza , R. Pastor-Satorras , A. Vespignani

We consider reaction-diffusion equations with combustion-type non-linearities in two dimensions and study speed-up of their pulsating fronts by general periodic incompressible flows with a cellular structure. We show that the occurence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Andrej Zlatos