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We investigate in this paper a scalar reaction diffusion equation with a nonlinear reaction term depending on x-ct. Here, c is a prescribed parameter modelling the speed of climate change and we wonder whether a population will survive or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Juliette Bouhours , Gregoire Nadin

We consider spatially discrete bistable reaction-diffusion equations that admit wave front solutions. Depending on the parameters involved, such wave fronts appear to be pinned or to glide at a certain speed. We study the transition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

This paper is concerned with reaction-diffusion-advection equations in spatially periodic media. Under an assumption of weak stability of the constant states 0 and 1, and of existence of pulsating traveling fronts connecting them, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hongjun Guo , François Hamel , Luca Rossi

This paper is concerned with curved fronts of combustion reaction-diffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $(N\geq2)$. By mixing finite planar fronts and constructing suitable super- and subsolutions, we prove the existence, uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Wei-Jie Sheng , Xin-Tian Zhang

Based on a recent work on traveling waves in spatially nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations, we investigate the existence of traveling fronts in reaction-diffusion equations with a memory term. We will explain how such memory terms can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Alexander Mielke , Sina Reichelt

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 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

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear propagation phenomena for reaction-advection-diffusion equations in a periodic framework. It deals with travelling wave solutions of the equation $$u_t =\nabla\cdot(A(z)\nabla u) +q(z)\cdot\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Mohammad El Smaily

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

We consider combustion problems in the presence of complex chemistry and nonlinear diffusion laws leading to fully nonlinear multispecies reaction-diffusion equations. We establish results of existence of solution and maximum principle,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Martine Marion , Roger Temam

We propose a new method for constructing exact solutions to nonlinear delay reaction--diffusion equations of the form $$ u_t=ku_{xx}+F(u,w), $$ where $u=u(x,t)$, $w=u(x,t-\tau)$, and $\tau$ is the delay time. The method is based on…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-04-22 Andrei D. Polyanin , Alexei I. Zhurov

We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Lionel Roques

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

We investigate wavefront solutions in a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t = n_{xx} - nb, \quad b_t = [D nbb_x]_x + nb,\] where $t\geq0,$ $x\in\mathbb{R}$, and $D$ is a positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Luisa Malaguti , Elisa Sovrano

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 front solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation $\partial_t u= -(1+\partial_x^2)^2 u +\epsilon ^2 u -u^3$. These are traveling waves which leave in their wake a periodic pattern in the laboratory frame. Using renormalization…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-07 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Guido Schneider

A complete family of solutions for the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation \[ u_{xx}(x,t)-q(x)u(x,t) = u_t(x,t) \] with a coefficient $q$ depending on $x$ is constructed. The solutions represent the images of the heat polynomials…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Vladislav V. Kravchenko , Josafath A. Otero , Sergii M. Torba

We study the propagation properties of nonnegative and bounded solutions of the class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear fractional diffusion: $u_{t} + (-\Delta)^s (u^m)=f(u)$. For all $0<s<1$ and $m> m_c=(N-2s)_+/N $, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Diana Stan , Juan Luis Vázquez

Reaction-diffusion equations appear in biology and chemistry, and combine linear diffusion with different kind of reaction terms. Some of them are remarkable from the mathematical point of view, since they admit families of travelling waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alessandro Audrito