The asymptotic speed of reaction fronts in active reaction-diffusion systems
arXiv:1812.02462 · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/ab1d8d
Abstract
We study various combinations of active diffusion with branching, as an extension of standard reaction-diffusion processes. We concentrate on the selection of the asymptotic wavefront speed for thermal run-and-tumble and for thermal active Brownian processes in general spatial dimensions. Comparing 1D active branching processes with a passive counterpart (which has the same effective diffusion constant and reproduction rate), we find that the active process has a smaller propagation speed. In higher dimensions, a similar comparison yields the opposite conclusion.
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