Exact and traveling-wave solutions for convection-diffusion-reaction equation with power-law nonlinearity

Based on the simplest equation method, we propose exact and traveling-wave solutions for a nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction equation with power law nonlinearity. Such equation can be considered as a generalization of the Fisher equation and other well-known convection-diffusion-reaction equations. Two important cases are considered. The case of density-independent diffusion and the case of density-dependent diffusion. When the parameters of the equation are constant, the Bernoulli equation is used as the simplest equation. This leads to new traveling-wave solutions. Moreover, some wavefront solutions can be derived from the traveling-wave ones. The case of time-dependent velocity in the convection term is studied also. We derive exact solutions of the equations by using the Riccati equation as simplest equation. The exact and traveling-wave solutions presented in this paper can be used to explain many biological and physical phenomena.     

Existence of Solutions to Time-Dependent Nonlinear Diffusion Equations via Convex Optimization

This paper aims at providing new existence results for time-dependent nonlinear diffusion equations by following a variational principle. More specifically, the nonlinear equation is reduced to a convex optimization problem via the Lagrange–Fenchel duality relations. We prove that, in the case when the potential related to the diffusivity function is continuous and has a polynomial growth with respect to the solution, the optimization problem is equivalent with the original diffusion equation. In the situation when the potential is singular, the minimization problem has a solution which can be viewed as a generalized solution to the diffusion equation. In this case, it is proved, however, that the null minimizer in the optimization problem in which the state boundedness is considered in addition is the weak solution to the original diffusion problem. This technique allows one to prove the existence in the cases when standard methods do not apply. The physical interpretation of the second case is intimately related to a flow in which two phases separated by a free boundary evolve in time, and has an immediate application to fluid filtration in porous media.     

The Structure of Internal Layers for Unstable Nonlinear Diffusion Equations

We study the structure of diffusive layers in solutions of unstable nonlinear diffusion equations. These equations are regularizations of the forward-backward heat equation and have diffusion coefficients that become negative. Such models include the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the pseudoparabolic viscous diffusion equation. Using singular perturbation methods we show that the balance between diffusion and higher-order regularization terms uniquely determines the interface structure in these equations. It is shown that the well-known “equal area” rule for the Cahn-Hilliard equation is a special case of a more general rule for shock construction in the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation.     

Stabilization by Slow Diffusion in a Real Ginzburg-Landau System

The Ginzburg-Landau equation is essential for understanding the dynamics of patterns in a wide variety of physical contexts. It governs the evolution of small amplitude instabilities near criticality. It is well known that the (cubic) Ginzburg-Landau equation has various unstable solitary pulse solutions. However, such localized patterns have been observed in systems in which there are two competing instability mechanisms. In such systems, the evolution of instabilities is described by a Ginzburg-Landau equation coupled to a diffusion equation. In this article we study the influence of this additional diffusion equation on the pulse solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation in light of recently developed insights into the effects of slow diffusion on the stability of pulses. Therefore, we consider the limit case of slow diffusion, i.e., the situation in which the additional diffusion equation acts on a long spatial scale. We show that the solitary pulse solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equation persists under this coupling. We use the Evans function method to analyze the effect of the slow diffusion and to show that it acts as a control mechanism that influences the (in)stability of the pulse. We establish that this control mechanism can indeed stabilize a pulse when higher order nonlinearities are taken into account.     

A non‐standard finite difference scheme for an advection‐diffusion‐reaction equation

In this note, a non‐standard finite difference (NSFD) scheme is proposed for an advection‐diffusion‐reaction equation with nonlinear reaction term. We first study the diffusion‐free case of this equation, that is, an advection‐reaction equation. Two exact finite difference schemes are constructed for the advection‐reaction equation by the method of characteristics. As these exact schemes are complicated and are not convenient to use, an NSFD scheme is derived from the exact scheme. Then, the NSFD scheme for the advection‐reaction equation is combined with a finite difference space‐approximation of the diffusion term to provide a NSFD scheme for the advection‐diffusion‐reaction equation. This new scheme could preserve the fixed points, the positivity, and the boundedness of the solution of the original equation. Numerical experiments verify the validity of our analytical results. Copyright © 2014 JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Similarity reductions and similarity solutions for the generalized diffusion equation

Herein, the generalized diffusion equation that encompasses the nonlinear diffusion equation with a source term and the Boussinesq equation in hydrology as its particular form and appears in a wide variety of physical and engineering applications has been analyzed via symmetry method that was developed by Steinberg. According to physical situations, in each case, the similarity variables obtained have led us to an ordinary differential equation, and we acquire some new solutions by solving the ODEs. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd     

Numerical studies of a nonlinear heat equation with square root reaction term

Interest in calculating numerical solutions of a highly nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation with fractional power diffusion and dissipative terms motivated our investigation of a heat equation having a square root nonlinear reaction term. The original equation occurs in the study of plasma behavior in fusion physics. We begin by examining the numerical behavior of the ordinary differential equation obtained by dropping the diffusion term. The results from this simpler case are then used to construct nonstandard finite difference schemes for the partial differential equation. A variety of numerical results are obtained and analyzed, along with a comparison to the numerics of both standard and several nonstandard schemes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2009     

Analysis of the time fractional nonlinear diffusion equation from diffusion process

Under investigation in this paper is a time fractional nonlinear diffusion equation which can be utilized to express various diffusion processes. The symmetry of this considered equation has been obtained via fractional Lie group approach with the sense of Riemann-Liouville (R-L) fractional derivative. Based on the symmetry, this equation can be changed into an ordinary differential equation of fractional order. Moreover, some new invariant solutions of this considered equation are found. Lastly, utilising the Noether theorem and the general form of Noether type theorem, the conservation laws are yielded to the time fractional nonlinear diffusion equation, respectively. Our discovery that there are no conservation laws under the general form of Noether type theorem case. This result tells us the symmetry of this equation is not variational symmetry of the considered functional. These rich results can give us more information to interpret this equation.     

Lattice Boltzmann solver of Rossler equation

We proposed a lattice Boltzmann model for the Rossler equation. Using a method of multiscales in the lattice Boltzmann model, we get the diffusion reaction as a special case. If the diffusion effect disappeared, we can obtain the lattice Boltzmann solution of the Rossler equation on the mesescopic scale. The numerical results show the method can be used to simulate Rossler equation.     

A multigrid solver to the Helmholtz equation with a point source based on travel time and amplitude

The Helmholtz equation arises when modeling wave propagation in the frequency domain. The equation is discretized as an indefinite linear system, which is difficult to solve at high wave numbers. In many applications, the solution of the Helmholtz equation is required for a point source. In this case, it is possible to reformulate the equation as two separate equations: one for the travel time of the wave and one for its amplitude. The travel time is obtained by a solution of the factored eikonal equation, and the amplitude is obtained by solving a complex‐valued advection–diffusion–reaction equation. The reformulated equation is equivalent to the original Helmholtz equation, and the differences between the numerical solutions of these equations arise only from discretization errors. We develop an efficient multigrid solver for obtaining the amplitude given the travel time, which can be efficiently computed. This approach is advantageous because the amplitude is typically smooth in this case and, hence, more suitable for multigrid solvers than the standard Helmholtz discretization. We demonstrate that our second‐order advection–diffusion–reaction discretization is more accurate than the standard second‐order discretization at high wave numbers, as long as there are no reflections or caustics. Moreover, we show that using our approach, the problem can be solved more efficiently than using the common shifted Laplacian multigrid approach.     

On Dynamical Systems Perturbed by a Null-Recurrent Fast Motion: The Continuous Coefficient Case with Independent Driving Noises

An ordinary differential equation perturbed by a null-recurrent diffusion will be considered in the case where the averaging type perturbation is strong only when a fast motion is close to the origin. The normal deviations of these solutions from the averaged motion are studied, and a central limit type theorem is proved. The limit process satisfies a linear equation driven by a Brownian motion time changed by the local time of the fast motion.     

Stability estimates of solutions to extremal problems for a nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction equation

We consider an identification problem for a stationary nonlinear convection–diffusion–reaction equation in which the reaction coefficient depends nonlinearly on the concentration of the substance. This problem is reduced to an inverse extremal problem by an optimization method. The solvability of the boundary value problem and the extremal problem is proved. In the case that the reaction coefficient is quadratic, when the equation acquires cubic nonlinearity, we deduce an optimality system. Analyzing it, we establish some estimates of the local stability of solutions to the extremal problem under small perturbations both of the quality functional and the given velocity vector which occurs multiplicatively in the convection–diffusion–reaction equation.     

Traveling wavefronts in temporally discrete reaction–diffusion equations with delay

This paper is concerned with the existence of traveling wavefronts of a temporally discrete reaction–diffusion equation with delay. By using monotone iteration and upper–lower solution technique, the existence of traveling wavefronts for the temporally discrete reaction–diffusion equation with delay is established. As an application, we consider an abstract diffusive equation, which includes a single species diffusive model as a particular case. Our result implies the temporally discrete model is a good approximation of corresponding continuous time model in sense of propagation.     

Convergence towards attractors for a degenerate Ginzburg-Landau equation

We study a real Ginzburg-Landau equation, in a bounded domain of \mathbbR^N ,\mathbb{R}^N , with a variable, generally non-smooth diffusion coefficient having a finite number of zeroes. By using the compactness of the embeddings of the weighted Sobolev spaces involved in the functional formulation of the problem, and the associated energy equation, we show the existence of a global attractor. The extension of the main result in the case of an unbounded domain is also discussed, where in addition, the diffusion coefficient has to be unbounded. Some remarks for the case of a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation are given.     

Existence and Stability of Traveling Waves for Degenerate Reaction–Diffusion Equation with Time Delay

This paper deals with the existence and stability of traveling wave solutions for a degenerate reaction–diffusion equation with time delay. The degeneracy of spatial diffusion together with the effect of time delay causes us the essential difficulty for the existence of the traveling waves and their stabilities. In order to treat this case, we first show the existence of smooth- and sharp-type traveling wave solutions in the case of \(c\ge c^*\) for the degenerate reaction–diffusion equation without delay, where \(c^*>0\) is the critical wave speed of smooth traveling waves. Then, as a small perturbation, we obtain the existence of the smooth non-critical traveling waves for the degenerate diffusion equation with small time delay \(\tau >0\). Furthermore, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of \(C^{\alpha ,\beta }\)-solution to the time-delayed degenerate reaction–diffusion equation via compactness analysis. Finally, by the weighted energy method, we prove that the smooth non-critical traveling wave is globally stable in the weighted \(L^1\)-space. The exponential convergence rate is also derived.     

Linear stochastic differential equations and Wick products

Summary We establish the existence and uniqueness of the solution to a multidimensional linear Skorohod stochastic differential equation with deterministic diffusion matrix, using the notions of Wick product andStransform. If the diffusion matrix is constant and has real eigenvalues, the solution is a stochastic process with moments of all orders, provided that the initial condition is differentiable up to a suitable order. The case of a diffusion matrix in the first Wiener chaos is discussed in the last section.Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeninschaft/Heisenberg ProgrammSupported by the DGICYT grant PB 90-0452     

Fractional diffusion equation and diffusive stresses

A quasi-static uncoupled theory of diffusive stresses based on the time-fractional diffusion equation is considered. The Caputo fractional derivative of order α is used. In particular, the proposed theory interpolates the classical theory of diffusive stresses and that without energy dissipation. The fundamental solution to the second Cauchy problem for the fractional diffusion equation in a plane as well as the associated diffusive stresses are obtained in the case α = 3/2. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

一类带扰动风险模型的Gerber-Shiu函数(英文)

本文研究了一类带扰动风险模型, 得到了此过程下Gerber-Shiu函数的微分积分方程, 并得到了推广Erlang(2)情形下Gerber-Shiu函数满足的更新方程.     

An inverse coefficient problem with nonlinear parabolic equation

The problem related to controlled potential experiments in electrochemistry is studied. Ion transport is regarded as the superposition of diffusion and migration. Modelling of the experiment leads to a problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation with additional condition. Driven by the needs of theoretical analysis, from the point of view a inverse coefficient problem, we analyze the monotonicity of input-output mappings in inverse coefficient and source problems for this parabolic equation. Additionally, we extend the nonlinear parabolic equation to a more general case. Under some proper conditions, we investigate the existence of quasisolution of the generalized nonlinear parabolic equation.