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    Pattern formation driven by cross--diffusion in a 2D domain

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    In this work we investigate the process of pattern formation in a two dimensional domain for a reaction-diffusion system with nonlinear diffusion terms and the competitive Lotka-Volterra kinetics. The linear stability analysis shows that cross-diffusion, through Turing bifurcation, is the key mechanism for the formation of spatial patterns. We show that the bifurcation can be regular, degenerate non-resonant and resonant. We use multiple scales expansions to derive the amplitude equations appropriate for each case and show that the system supports patterns like rolls, squares, mixed-mode patterns, supersquares, hexagonal patterns

    Global existence and asymptotic behavior for a nonlinear degenerate SIS model

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    In this paper we investigate the global existence and asymptotic behavior of a reaction diffusion system with degenerate diffusion arising in the modeling and the spatial spread of an epidemic disease

    On a diffuse interface model for tumour growth with non-local interactions and degenerate mobilities

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    We study a non-local variant of a diffuse interface model proposed by Hawkins--Darrud et al. (2012) for tumour growth in the presence of a chemical species acting as nutrient. The system consists of a Cahn--Hilliard equation coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation. For non-degenerate mobilities and smooth potentials, we derive well-posedness results, which are the non-local analogue of those obtained in Frigeri et al. (European J. Appl. Math. 2015). Furthermore, we establish existence of weak solutions for the case of degenerate mobilities and singular potentials, which serves to confine the order parameter to its physically relevant interval. Due to the non-local nature of the equations, under additional assumptions continuous dependence on initial data can also be shown.Comment: 28 page

    Blow-up properties for a degenerate parabolic system with nonlinear localized sources

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    AbstractThis paper deals with blow-up properties for a degenerate parabolic system with nonlinear localized sources subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The main aim of this paper is to study the blow-up rate estimate and the uniform blow-up profile of the blow-up solution. Our conclusions extend the results of [L.L. Du, Blow-up for a degenerate reaction–diffusion system with nonlinear localized sources, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 324 (2006) 304–320]. At the end, the blow-up set and blow up rate with respect to the radial variable is considered when the domain Ω is a ball

    A coupled system of PDEs and ODEs arising in electrocardiograms modelling

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    We study the well-posedness of a coupled system of PDEs and ODEs arising in the numerical simulation of electrocardiograms. It consists of a system of degenerate reaction-diffusion equations, the so-called bidomain equations, governing the electrical activity of the heart, and a diffusion equation governing the potential in the surrounding tissues. Global existence of weak solutions is proved for an abstract class of ionic models including Mitchell-Schaeffer, FitzHugh-Nagumo, Aliev-Panfilov and MacCulloch. Uniqueness is proved in the case of the FitzHugh-Nagumo ionic model. The proof is based on a regularisation argument with a Faedo-Galerkin/compactness procedure

    Perturbation Analysis of the Kuramoto Phase Diffusion Equation Subject to Quenched Frequency Disorder

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    The Kuramoto phase diffusion equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation which describes the spatio-temporal evolution of a phase variable in an oscillatory reaction diffusion system. Synchronization manifests itself in a stationary phase gradient where all phases throughout a system evolve with the same velocity, the synchronization frequency. The formation of concentric waves can be explained by local impurities of higher frequency which can entrain their surroundings. Concentric waves in synchronization also occur in heterogeneous systems, where the local frequencies are distributed randomly. We present a perturbation analysis of the synchronization frequency where the perturbation is given by the heterogeneity of natural frequencies in the system. The nonlinearity in form of dispersion, leads to an overall acceleration of the oscillation for which the expected value can be calculated from the second order perturbation terms. We apply the theory to simple topologies, like a line or the sphere, and deduce the dependence of the synchronization frequency on the size and the dimension of the oscillatory medium. We show that our theory can be extended to include rotating waves in a medium with periodic boundary conditions. By changing a system parameter the synchronized state may become quasi degenerate. We demonstrate how perturbation theory fails at such a critical point.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure

    Existence analysis for a reaction-diffusion Cahn-Hilliard-type system with degenerate mobility and singular potential modeling biofilm growth

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    The global existence of bounded weak solutions to a diffusion system modeling biofilm growth is proven. The equations consist of a reaction-diffusion equation for the substrate concentration and a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard-type equation for the volume fraction of the biomass, considered in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions. The main difficulties are coming from the degenerate diffusivity and mobility, the singular potential arising from a logarithmic free energy, and the nonlinear reaction rates. These issues are overcome by a truncation technique and a Browder-Minty trick to identify the weak limits of the reaction terms. The qualitative behavior of the solutions is illustrated by numerical experiments in one space dimension, using a BDF2 (second-order backward Differentiation Formula) finite-volume scheme
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