Logistic front of a bistable cubic equation

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For the decreasing front connecting to , the balanced stationary travelling-wave reduction of a reaction-diffusion system has first integral . Choosing the negative derivative gives and hence . This logistic profile remains an exact travelling wave when the reaction parameter differs from : using , its derivative is , and the wave equation is satisfied for . Thus the speed changes with the potential bias while the shape, apart from translation, does not.

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