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Multiple time scales problems are investigated by combining geometrical and analytical approaches. More precisely, for fast-slow reaction-diffusion systems, we first prove the existence of slow manifolds for the abstract problem under the assumption that cross diffusion is small. This is done by extending the Fenichel theory to an infinite dimensional setting, where a main idea is to introduce a suitable space splitting corresponding to a small parameter, which controls additional fast contributions of the slow variable. These results require a strong convergence in $L^\infty(0,T;H^2(\Omega))$, which is the subtle analytical issue in fast reaction problems in comparison to previous works. By considering a nonlinear fast reversible reaction in one dimension, we successfully prove this convergence and therefore obtain the slow manifold for a PDE with fast reactions. Moreover, the obtained convergence also shows the influence of the cross diffusion term and illuminates the role of the initial layer. Explicit approximations of the slow manifold are also carried out in the case of linear systems.

The global existence of bounded solutions to reaction-diffusion systems with fractional diffusion in the whole space $\mathbb R^N$ is investigated. The systems are assumed to preserve the non-negativity of initial data and to dissipate total mass. We first show that if the nonlinearities are at most quadratic then there exists a unique global bounded solution regardless of the fractional order. This is done by combining a regularizing effect of the fractional diffusion operator and the H\"older continuity of a non-local inhomogeneous parabolic equation. When the nonlinearities might be super-quadratic, but satisfy some intermediate sum conditions, we prove the global existence of bounded solutions by adapting the well-known duality methods to the case of fractional diffusion. In this case, the order of the intermediate sum conditions depends on the fractional order. These results extend the existing theory for mass dissipated reaction-diffusion systems to the case of non-local diffusion and unbounded domains., Comment: 49 pages