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This paper is concerned with the existence and further properties of propagation speeds of transition fronts for bistable reaction-diffusion equations in exterior domains and in some domains with multiple cylindrical branches. In exterior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Hongjun Guo , Francois Hamel , Wei-Jie Sheng

We discuss a free boundary problem for two moving solid-liquid interfaces that strongly interact via the diffusion field in the liquid layer between them. This problem arises in the context of liquid film migration (LFM) during the partial…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Efim A. Brener , D. E. Temkin

In this paper, we analyse propagating fronts in the context of hyperbolic theories of dissipative processes. These can be considered as a natural alternative to the more classical parabolic models. Emphasis is given toward the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon G. Plaza , Chiara Simeoni

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

In this paper, we consider the phenomenon of monostable pulsating fronts for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion-advection systems in periodic media. Recent results have addressed the existence of pulsating fronts and the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Li-Jun Du , Wan-Tong Li , Ming-Zhen Xin

The empirical velocity of a reaction-diffusion front, propagating into an unstable state, fluctuates because of the shot noises of the reactions and diffusion. Under certain conditions these fluctuations can be described as a diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Evgeniy Khain , Baruch Meerson , Pavel Sasorov

For the classical reaction diffusion equation, the priori speed of fronts is determined exactly in the pioneering paper (R.D. Benguria and M.C. Depassier, {\em Commun. Math. Phys.} 175:221--227, 1996) by variational characterization method.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

We study front propagation in the reversible reaction-diffusion system A + A <-> A on a 1-d lattice. Extending the idea of leading particle in studying the motion of the front we write a master equation in the stochastically moving frame…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Niraj Kumar , Goutam Tripathy

Recently it has been shown that when an equation that allows so-called pulled fronts in the mean-field limit is modelled with a stochastic model with a finite number $N$ of particles per correlation volume, the convergence to the speed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debabrata Panja , Wim van Saarloos

This paper is concerned with the propagation phenomenon of the combustion reaction-diffusion equations in domains with multiple cylindrical branches. We first show that there is an entire solution emanating from planar traveling fronts in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng , Zhi-Cheng Wang

We study various combinations of active diffusion with branching, as an extension of standard reaction-diffusion processes. We concentrate on the selection of the asymptotic wavefront speed for thermal run-and-tumble and for thermal active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-22 Thibaut Demaerel , Christian Maes

The problem of front propagation in a stirred medium is addressed in the case of cellular flows in three different regimes: slow reaction, fast reaction and geometrical optics limit. It is well known that a consequence of stirring is the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Abel , M. Cencini , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

We investigate travelling wave solutions in reaction-diffusion models of animal range expansion in the case that population diffusion is density-dependent. We find that the speed of the selected wave depends critically on the strength of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Beth M. Stokes , Tim Rogers , Richard James

In this paper we investigate the dynamical properties of a spatially periodic reaction-diffusion system {whose reaction terms are of hybrid nature in the sense that they are partly competitive and partly cooperative depending on the value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Quentin Griette , Hiroshi Matano

This paper considers new approach to control a stationary inhomogeneous planar front solution of a nonlinear parabolic two-dimensional distributed (reaction-diffusion) system, by using a gain point-sensor control with actuators that have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yelena Smagina , Moshe Sheintuch

Many reaction-diffusion systems in various applications exhibit traveling wave solutions that evolve on multiple spatio-temporal scales. These traveling wave solutions are crucial for understanding the underlying dynamics of the system. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Jiaxi Gu , Daniel Olmos-Liceaga , Jae-Hun Jung

We consider reaction-diffusion fronts in spatially periodic bistable media with large periods. Whereas the homogenization regime associated with small periods had been well studied for bistable or Fisher-KPP reactions and, in the latter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Weiwei Ding , François Hamel , Xing Liang

We study the asymptotic speed of traveling fronts of the scalar reaction diffusion for positive reaction terms and with a diffusion coefficient depending nonlinearly on the concentration and on its gradient. We restrict our study to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation dynamics for a large class of non-monotone evolution systems. In two directions of the spatial variable, such a system has two limiting systems admitting the spatial translation invariance.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Taishan Yi , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

A technique of hyperbolic scaling is applied to calculate a reaction front velocity in an irreversible autocatalytic conversion reaction $A+B\,\rightarrow\, 2A$ under subdiffusion. The method, based on the geometric optics approach is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Iomin , I. M. Sokolov