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We report on recent progress in the study of nonlinear diffusion equations involving nonlocal, long-range diffusion effects. Our main concern is the so-called fractional porous medium equation, $\partial_t u +(-\Delta)^{s}(u^m)=0$, and some…
We consider a passive scalar that is advected by a prescribed mean zero divergence-free velocity field, diffuses, and reacts according to a KPP-type nonlinear reaction. We introduce a quantity, the bulk burning rate, that makes both…
In [Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. S\'{e}r. Sci. Math. 29 (1981), no.~7-8, 367--370], Philos proved the following result: Let $f:[t_{0},\infty)_{\mathbb{R}}\to\mathbb{R}$ be an $n$-times differentiable function such that $f^{(n)}(t)\leq0$…
A one-dimensional model on a line of the length L is investigated, which involves particle diffusion as well as single particle annihilation. There are also creation and annihilation at the boundaries. The static and dynamical behaviors of…
We obtain explicit expressions for one unknown thermal coefficient (among the conductivity, mass density, specific heat and latent heat of fusion) of a semi-infinite material through the one-phase fractional Lam\'e-Clapeyron-Stefan problem…
We show a stochastic version of the Schauder-Tychonoff fixed point theorem which yields a solution of the martingale problem for a class of systems of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations driven by a cylindrical Wiener process and a…
We study the following time-fractional heat equation: \begin{equation*} ^{C}\partial_{t}^{\alpha}u(t)+\mathscr{L}u(t)=0,\quad u(0)=u_0\in X, \quad t\in[0,T],\quad T>0,\quad 0<\alpha<1, \end{equation*} where $^{C}\partial_{t}^{\alpha}$ is…
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…
In this paper we prove the global in time well-posedness of the following non-local diffusion equation with $\alpha \in[0,2/3)$: $$ \partial_t u = {(-\triangle)^{-1}u} \triangle u + \alpha u^2, \quad u(t=0) = u_0. $$ The initial condition…
A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…
This paper is concerned with the spatio-temporal dynamics of nonnegative bounded entire solutions of some reaction-diffusion equations in R N in any space dimension N. The solutions are assumed to be localized in the past. Under certain…
We compute the persistence for the $2d$-diffusion equation with random initial condition, i.e., the probability $p_0(t)$ that the diffusion field, at a given point ${\bf x}$ in the plane, has not changed sign up to time $t$. For large $t$,…
In this paper we deal with a reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded interval of the real line with a nonlinear diffusion of Perona-Malik's type and a balanced bistable reaction term. Under very general assumptions, we study the…
We examine the long time behaviour of A+B->0 reaction diffusion systems with initially segregated species A and B. All of our analysis is carried out for arbitrary (positive) values of the diffusion constants $D_A$, $D_B$, and initial…
The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…
We study reaction-diffusion equations in cylinders with possibly nonlinear diffusion and possibly nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions. We provide a geometric Poincar\'e-type inequality and classification results for stable solutions, and…
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