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Variational characterization of the speed of propagation of fronts for the nonlinear diffusion equation (English)
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13 May 1996
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The authors give an integral variational characterization for the speed of fronts of the semilinear diffusion equation \(u_t= u_{xx}+ f(u)\) with \(f(0)= f(1)= 0\) and \(f> 0\) in \((0, 1)\), which enables the exact computation of the speed for arbitrary \(f\).
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speed of fronts
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semilinear diffusion equation
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