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The aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fisher-KPP equation with nonlocal diffusion. In specific we prove the existence of a critical speed so that traveling front type solutions exist up to this critical speed and non-existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 José Fuentealba , Alexander Quaas

The notion of traveling wave, which typically refers to some particular spatio-temporal con- nections between two stationary states (typically, entire solutions keeping the same profile's shape through time), is essential in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Thomas Giletti

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

The Fisher-KPP equation is a reaction-diffusion equation originally proposed by Fisher to represent allele propagation in genetic hosts or population. It was also proposed by Kolmogorov for more general applications. A novel method for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Luisiana Cundin

Biological invasion, whereby populations of motile and proliferative individuals lead to moving fronts that invade into vacant regions, are routinely studied using partial differential equation (PDE) models based upon the classical…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-02 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

Non-cooperative Fisher-KPP systems with space-time periodic coefficients are motivated for instance by models for structured populations evolving in periodic environments. This paper is concerned with entire solutions describing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Léo Girardin , Grégoire Nadin

This review provides open-access computational tools that support a range of mathematical approaches to analyse three related scalar reaction-diffusion models used to study biological invasion. Starting with the classic Fisher-Kolmogorov…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-26 Matthew J Simpson , Scott W McCue

In this paper, we treat the Fisher-KPP equation with a Caputo-type time fractional derivative and discuss the propagation speed of the solution. The equation is a mathematical model that describes the processes of sub-diffusion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Hiroshi Ishii

We prove the existence of a family of travelling wave solutions in a variant of the $\textit{Zeldovich-Frank-Kamenetskii (ZFK) equation}$, a reaction-diffusion equation which models the propagation of planar laminar premixed flames in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Samuel Jelbart , Kristian Uldall Kristiansen , Peter Szmolyan

In this study, we investigate a porous medium-type flux limited reaction--diffusion equation that arises in morphogenesis modeling. This nonlinear partial differential equation is an extension of the generalized…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Waipot Ngamsaad , Suthep Suantai

This paper is devoted to existence and non-existence results for generalized tran-sition waves solutions of space-time heterogeneous Fisher-KPP equations. When the coefficients of the equation are periodic in space but otherwise depend in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Grégoire Nadin , Luca Rossi

We investigate the system of two coupled one-dimensional Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equations which possess the global conservation law. Such system of equations has been recently derived for the quasiparticle densities in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-19 O. I. Baburin , I. S. Burmistrov

We study the radially symmetric high dimensional Fisher-KPP nonlocal diffusion equation with free boundary, and reveal some fundamental differences from its one dimensional version considered in \cite{cdjfa} recently. Technically, this high…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Yihong Du , Wenjie Ni

Using all available data on the deep-inelastic cross-sections at HERA at x<0.01, we look for geometric scaling of the form \sigma^{\gamma^*p}(\tau) where the scaling variable \tau behaves alternatively like \log(Q^2)-\lambda Y, as in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Gelis , R. Peschanski , G. Soyez , L. Schoeffel

We consider a nonlocal analogue of the Fisher-KPP equation. We do not assume that the Borel-measure for the convolution is absolutely continuous. In order to show the main result, we modify a recursive method for abstract monotone discrete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Hiroki Yagisita

We study the stability of traveling waves of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonzero condition at infinity obtained via a constrained variational approach. Two important physical models are Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Zhiwu Lin , Zhengping Wang , Chongchun Zeng

Using consistent truncations of the BFKL kernel, we derive analytical traveling-wave solutions of the Balitsky-Kovchegov saturation equation for both fixed and running coupling. A universal parametrization of the ``interior'' of the wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Marquet , R. Peschanski , G. Soyez

We jointly investigate the existence of quasi-stationary distributions for one dimensional L\'evy processes and the existence of traveling waves for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov (F-KPP) equation associated with the same motion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Pablo Groisman , Matthieu Jonckheere

We study the asymptotics of front speeds of the reaction-diffusion equations with Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity and zero mean stationary ergodic Gaussian shear advection on the entire plane. By exploiting connections of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Xin

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