Front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems with anomalous diffusion

DOI10.1007/S40590-014-0008-8zbMATH Open1335.35286arXiv1409.3132OpenAlexW3101734045MaRDI QIDQ2254698FDOQ2254698

Authors: D. del-Castillo-Negrete 

Publication date: 6 February 2015

Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A numerical study of the role of anomalous diffusion in front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems is presented. Three models of anomalous diffusion are considered: fractional diffusion, tempered fractional diffusion, and a model that combines fractional diffusion and regular diffusion. The reaction kinetics corresponds to a Fisher-Kolmogorov nonlinearity. The numerical method is based on a finite-difference operator splitting algorithm with an explicit Euler step for the time advance of the reaction kinetics, and a Crank-Nicholson semi-implicit time step for the transport operator. The anomalous diffusion operators are discretized using an upwind, flux-conserving, Grunwald-Letnikov finite-difference scheme applied to the regularized fractional derivatives. With fractional diffusion of order $alpha$, fronts exhibit exponential acceleration, $a_L(t)sim{e}^{gammat/alpha}$, and develop algebraic decaying tails, $phisim1/x^{alpha}$. In the case of tempered fractional diffusion, this phenomenology prevails in the intermediate asymptotic regime $left(chitight{)}^{1/alpha}llxll1/lambda$, where $1/lambda$ is the scale of the tempering. Outside this regime, i.e. for $x>1/lambda$, the tail exhibits the tempered decay $phisim{e}^{-lambdax}/x^{alpha+1}$, and the front velocity approaches the terminal speed $v_{*}=left(gamma-lambd{a}^{a}lphachiight)/lambda$. Of particular interest is the study of the interplay of regular and fractional diffusion. It is shown that the main role of regular diffusion is to delay the onset of front acceleration. In particular, the crossover time, $t_c$, to transition to the accelerated fractional regime exhibits a logarithmic scaling of the form $t_{c}simlogleft(ch{i}_d/ch{i}_{f}ight)$ where $ch{i}_d$ and $ch{i}_f$ are the regular and fractional diffusivities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3132

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion systemsanomalous diffusionfront propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06)

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