We analyse the influence of diffusion and space distribution of cells in a simple model of interactions between an activated immune system and malignant gliomas, among which the most aggressive one is GBM Glioblastoma Multiforme. It turns out that diffusion cannot affect stability of spatially homogeneous steady states. This suggests that there are two possible outcomes-the solution is either attracted by the positive steady state or by the semitrivial one. The semitrivial steady state describes...

Propagation of polymerization fronts with liquid monomer and liquid polymer is considered and the influence of vibrations on critical conditions of convective instability is studied. The model includes the heat equation, the equation for the concentration and the Navier-Stokes equations considered under the Boussinesq approximation. Linear stability analysis of the problem is fulfilled, and the convective instability boundary is found depending on...

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of vibrations on convective instability of reaction fronts in porous media. The model contains reaction-diffusion equations coupled with the Darcy equation. Linear stability analysis is carried out and the convective instability boundary is found. The results are compared with direct numerical simulations.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 26A33; Secondary 35S10, 86A05Fractional diffusion equations are abstract partial differential equations that involve fractional derivatives in space and time. They are useful to model anomalous diffusion, where a plume of particles spreads in a different manner than the classical diffusion equation predicts. An initial value problem involving a space-fractional diffusion equation is an abstract Cauchy problem, whose analytic solution can be written...

We consider a reaction-diffusion system of activator-inhibitor type which is subject to Turing's diffusion-driven instability. It is shown that unilateral obstacles of various type for the inhibitor, modeled by variational inequalities, lead to instability of the trivial solution in a parameter domain where it would be stable otherwise. The result is based on a previous joint work with I.-S. Kim, but a refinement of the underlying theoretical tool is developed. Moreover, a different regime of parameters...

Spatiotemporal patterns near a codimension-2 Turing-Hopf point of the one-dimensional superdiffusive Brusselator model are analyzed. The superdiffusive Brusselator model differs from its regular counterpart in that the Laplacian operator of the regular model is replaced by ∂α/∂|ξ|α, 1 < α < 2, an integro-differential operator that reflects the nonlocal behavior of superdiffusion. The order of the operator, α, is a measure of the rate of ...

We study the properties of interfaces in solutions of the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation ut = Δum - up in Rn x (0,T] with the parameters m &gt; 1, p &gt; 0 satisfying the condition m + p ≥ 2. We show that the velocity of the interface Γ(t) = ∂{supp u(x,t)} is given by the formula v = [ -m / (m-1) ∇um-1 + ∇Π ]|Γ(t) where Π is the solution of the degenerate elliptic equation div (u∇Π) + up = 0, Π = 0 on Γ(t). We give explicit formulas which represent the interface...

MSC 2010: 26A33, 33E12, 34K29, 34L15, 35K57, 35R30We prove that by taking suitable initial distributions only finitely many measurements on the boundary are required to recover uniquely the diffusion coefficient of a one dimensional fractional diffusion equation. If a lower bound on the diffusion coefficient is known a priori then even only two measurements are sufficient. The technique is based on possibility of extracting the full boundary spectral data from special lateral measurements.

In this contribution we add a unilateral term to the Thomas model and investigate the resulting Turing patterns. We show that the unilateral term yields nonsymmetric and irregular patterns. This contrasts with the approximately symmetric and regular patterns of the classical Thomas model. In addition, the unilateral term yields Turing patterns even for smaller ratio of diffusion constants. These conclusions accord with the recent findings about the influence of the unilateral term in a model for...

The $L^2$-stability (instability) of a binary nonlinear reaction diffusion system of P.D.E.s - either under Dirichlet or Neumann boundary data - is considered. Conditions allowing the reduction to a stability (instability) problem for a linear binary system of O.D.E.s are furnished. A peculiar Liapunov functional $V$ linked (together with the time derivative along the solutions) by direct simple relations to the eigenvalues, is used.

Consider a one dimensional nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation (KPP equation) with non-homogeneous second order term, discontinuous initial condition and small parameter. For points ahead of the Freidlin-KPP front, the solution tends to 0 and we obtain sharp asymptotics (i.e. non logarithmic). Our study follows the work of Ben Arous and Rouault who solved this problem in the homogeneous case. Our proof is probabilistic, and is based on the Feynman-Kac formula and the large deviation principle...

We consider the following reaction-diffusion equation:$$\left(\mathrm{KS}\right)\left\{\begin{array}{cccc}{u}_t=\nabla ·\left(\nabla u^m-u^{q-1}\nabla v\right),\hfill & x\in {ℝ}^N,0<t<\infty ,0=\Delta v-v+u,\hfill & x\in {ℝ}^N,0<t<\infty ,u(x,0)=u_0\left(x\right),\hfill & x\in {ℝ}^N,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $N\ge 1,m>1,q\ge max\{m+\frac{2}{N},2\}$.
In [Sugiyama, Nonlinear Anal.63 (2005) 1051–1062; Submitted; J. Differential Equations (in press)] it was shown that in the case of $q\ge max\{m+\frac{2}{N},2\}$, the above problem (KS) is solvable globally in time for “small $L^{\frac{N(q-m)}{2}}$ data”. Moreover, the decay of the solution (u,v) in $L^p\left({ℝ}^N\right)$ was proved. In this paper, we consider the case of “$q\ge max\{m+\frac{2}{N},2\}$ and small $L^{\ell }$ data” with any fixed $\ell \ge \frac{N(q-m)}{2}$ and show that (i) there exists a time global solution (u,v) of (KS) and it decays to...