Propagation failure of traveling waves in a discrete bistable medium

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DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00251-0zbMATH Open0935.35070arXivpatt-sol/9711003MaRDI QIDQ1963457FDOQ1963457


Authors: Gábor Fáth Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 February 2000

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Propagation failure (pinning) of traveling waves is studied in a discrete scalar reaction-diffusion equation with a piecewise linear, bistable reaction function. The critical points of the pinning transition, and the wavefront profile at the onset of propagation are calculated exactly. The scaling of the wave speed near the transition, and the leading corrections to the front shape are also determined. We find that the speed vanishes logarithmically close to the critical point, thus the model belongs to a different universality class than the standard Nagumo model, defined with a smooth, polynomial reaction function.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9711003




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