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

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.