Pattern formation in a flux limited reaction-diffusion equation of porous media type (Q730185): Difference between revisions

In this very interesting work, the authors investigate pattern formation in porous media. More specifically, they examine the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions for a non-linear Fokker-Planck equation with flux limited diffusion, of the form \[ u_t=\nu \text{div}\Big(\frac{u^m\nabla u}{\sqrt{|u|^2+\frac{\nu^2}{c^2}|\nabla u|^2}}\Big)+F(u), \] posed in \((0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^n\), where \(m>1\), \(\nu\) is a kinematic viscosity, and \(c>0\) is a characteristic speed; the nonlinearity \(F(u)\) is a Lipschitz continuous function satisfying \[ F(0)=F(1)=0. \] In particular, one-dimensional traveling wave solutions \[ u(x-\sigma t), \] with constant speed \(\sigma>0\), and range in \([0, 1]\) are considered. Depending on the wave speed, existence of classical traveling waves is established, while for \[ \sigma_{\text{ent}}\leq\sigma<\sigma_{\text{smooth}}, \] discontinuous waves are developed that resemble to hyperbolic shock waves. In the case of \(\sigma = \sigma_{\text{ent}}\), the discontinuous solutions are supported on the half line and correspond to propagation of information at finite speed.