Exact sharp-fronted solutions for nonlinear diffusion on evolving domains

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AD0699MaRDI QIDQ6086641zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stuart T. Johnston, Matthew J. Simpson

Publication date 10 November 2023

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07491

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutiongrowing domainnonlinear diffusionsharp fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Moving boundary problems for PDEs (35R37)

Abstract: Models of diffusive processes that occur on evolving domains are frequently employed to describe biological and physical phenomena, such as diffusion within expanding tissues or substrates. Previous investigations into these models either report numerical solutions or require an assumption of linear diffusion to determine exact solutions. Unfortunately, numerical solutions do not reveal the relationship between the model parameters and the solution features. Additionally, experimental observations typically report the presence of sharp fronts, which are not captured by linear diffusion. Here we address both limitations by presenting exact sharp-fronted solutions to a model of degenerate nonlinear diffusion on a growing domain. We obtain the solution by identifying a series of transformations that converts the model of nonlinear diffusion on a growing domain to the porous medium equation on a fixed domain, which admits known exact solutions. We determine expressions for critical time scales and domain growth rates such that the diffusive population never reaches the domain boundaries and hence the solution remains valid.

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