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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

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

A semiclassical approximation approach based on the Maslov complex germ method is considered in detail for the 1D nonlocal Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov equation under the supposition of weak diffusion. In terms of the semiclassical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-26 A. V. Shapovalov , A. Yu. Trifonov

We consider a minimal go-or-grow model of cell invasion, whereby cells can either proliferate, following logistic growth, or move, via linear diffusion, and phenotypic switching between these two states is density-dependent. Formal analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Carles Falcó , Rebecca M. Crossley , Ruth E. Baker

Direct algebraic method of obtaining exact solutions to nonlinear PDE's is applied to certain set of nonlinear nonlocal evolutionary equations, including nonlinear telegraph equation, hyperbolic generalization of Burgers equation and some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov , Ekaterina V. Kutafina

Motivated by numerical schemes for large scale geophysical flow, we consider the rotating shallow water and Boussinesq equations on the whole space with horizontal kinetic energy backscatter source terms built from negative viscosity and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Artur Prugger , Jens D. M. Rademacher , Jichen Yang

Starting with the pioneering computations of Stokes in 1847, the search of traveling waves in fluid mechanics has always been a fundamental topic, since they can be seen as building blocks to determine the long time dynamics (which is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Roberto Feola , Riccardo Montalto , Shulamit Terracina

Motivated by earlier studies of artificial perceptions of light called phosphenes, we analyze traveling wave solutions in a chain of periodically forced coupled nonlinear oscillators modeling this phenomenon. We examine the discrete model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-20 Mei Duanmu , Nathaniel Whitaker , Panos Kevrekidis , Anna Vainchtein , Jonathan Rubin

In this paper, we investigate the location of the spreading front and convergence to traveling wave profile of solutions to the Fisher-KPP equation in the following two cases: (i) in unbounded domains with an expanding boundary; (ii) on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 King-Yeung Lam , Chang-Hong Wu

We study travelling wave solutions, that is, solutions of the form $v(t, x) = e^{i\lambda t}u(g(t)x)$, to nonlinear Schr\"odinger and Klein-Gordon equations on Riemannian manifolds, both compact and non-compact ones, with emphasis on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Mayukh Mukherjee

We establish the existence of quasi-periodic traveling wave solutions for the $\beta$-plane equation on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with a large quasi-periodic traveling wave external force. These solutions exhibit large sizes, which depend on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Roberta Bianchini , Luca Franzoi , Riccardo Montalto , Shulamit Terracina

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

In this article, we present a comprehensive analytical study to obtain the exact traveling wave solutions to a new formed model of the (2+1)-dimensional BKP equation. We construct exact solutions of the considered model using a recently…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Rajib Mia

We present a combined experimental, numerical and theoretical investigation of the geometric scaling of the onset of a purely-elastic flow instability in a serpentine channel. Good qualitative agreement is obtained between experiments,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Zilz , R. J. Poole , M. A. Alves , D. Bartolo , B. Levache , A. Lindner

We investigate the effect of a Heaviside cut-off on the front propagation dynamics of the so-called Burgers-FisherKolmogoroff-Petrowskii-Piscounov (Burgers-FKPP) advection-reaction-diffusion equation. We prove the existence and uniqueness…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Nikola Popovic , Mariya Ptashnyk , Zak Sattar

We describe traveling waves in a basic model for three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it) form an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Robert L. Pego , Jose Raul Quintero

This paper studies forced waves for the heterogeneous Fisher-KPP equation $u_t = u_{xx} + u(a(x-ct)-u)$, where $c>0$ and $a(z)>0$ satisfies $a(-\infty)=\alpha>0=a(+\infty)$, $a'(z)\le0$ ($z\gg1$). Using ODE asymptotic analysis, we classify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Zhibao Tang , Shi-Liang Wu , Yaping Wu

When a quantum particle moves in a curved space, a geometric potential can arise. In spite of a long history of extensive theoretical studies, to experimentally observe the geometric potential remains to be a challenge. What are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Chen-Di Han , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

We investigate pattern formation in a two-dimensional (2D) Fisher--Stefan model, which involves solving the Fisher--KPP equation on a compactly-supported region with a moving boundary. By combining the Fisher--KPP and classical Stefan…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Alexander K. Y. Tam , Matthew J. Simpson

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the large-time behavior of solutions of one-dimensional Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations. The initial conditions are assumed to be globally front-like and to decay at infinity towards the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques