Invading and receding sharp-fronted travelling waves

M El-Hachem, SW McCue, MJ Simpson - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2021 - Springer
Biological invasion, whereby populations of motile and proliferative individuals lead to
moving fronts that invade vacant regions, is routinely studied using partial differential …

Pattern formation and front stability for a moving-boundary model of biological invasion and recession

AKY Tam, MJ Simpson - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate pattern formation in a two-dimensional (2D) Fisher–Stefan model, which
involves solving the Fisher–KPP equation on a compactly-supported region with a moving …

Non-vanishing sharp-fronted travelling wave solutions of the Fisher–Kolmogorov model

M El-Hachem, SW McCue… - … Medicine and Biology: A …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov (KPP) model, and generalizations
thereof, involves simple reaction–diffusion equations for biological invasion that assume …

Reaction-diffusion models of biological invasion: Open source computational tools, key concepts and analysis

MJ Simpson, SW McCue - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01667, 2024 - arxiv.org
This review provides open-access computational tools that support a range of mathematical
approaches to analyse three related scalar reaction-diffusion models used to study …

The effect of geometry on survival and extinction in a moving-boundary problem motivated by the Fisher–KPP equation

AKY Tam, MJ Simpson - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fisher–Stefan model involves solving the Fisher–KPP equation on a domain
whose boundary evolves according to a Stefan-like condition. The Fisher–Stefan model …

Revisiting the Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation to interpret the spreading–extinction dichotomy

M El-Hachem, SW McCue, W Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov model, also known as the Fisher–KPP model,
supports travelling wave solutions that are successfully used to model numerous invasive …

Travelling wave analysis of cellular invasion into surrounding tissues

M El-Hachem, SW McCue, MJ Simpson - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2021 - Elsevier
Single-species reaction–diffusion equations, such as the Fisher–KPP and Porous-Fisher
equations, support travelling wave solutions that are often interpreted as simple …

Travelling waves, spreading and extinction for Fisher–KPP propagation driven by a line with fast diffusion

H Berestycki, JM Roquejoffre, L Rossi - Nonlinear Analysis, 2016 - Elsevier
In an earlier work (Berestycki et al., 2013), we introduced a parabolic system to describe
biological invasions in the presence of a line (the “road”) with a specific diffusion, included in …

Traveling waves, blow‐up, and extinction in the Fisher–Stefan model

SW McCue, M El‐Hachem… - Studies in Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While there is a long history of employing moving boundary problems in physics, in
particular via Stefan problems for heat conduction accompanied by a change of phase, more …

Exact sharp-fronted travelling wave solutions of the Fisher–KPP equation

SW McCue, M El-Hachem, MJ Simpson - Applied Mathematics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
A family of travelling wave solutions to the Fisher–KPP equation with speeds c=±5∕ 6 can
be expressed exactly using Weierstra ß elliptic functions. The well-known solution for c= 5∕ …