Traveling wave fronts for generalized Fisher equations with spatio-temporal delays

We study the existence of traveling wave fronts for a reaction-diffusion equation with spatio-temporal delays and small parameters. The equation reduces to a generalized Fisher equation if small parameters are zero. We present two results. In the first one, we deal with the equation with very general kernels and show the persistence of Fisher wave fronts for all sufficiently small parameters. In the second one, we deal with some particular kernels, with which the nonlocal equation can be reduced to a system of singularly perturbed ODEs, and we are then able to apply the geometric singular perturbation theory and phase plane arguments to this system to show the existence of the minimal wave speed, the existence of a continuum of wave fronts, and the global uniqueness of the physical wave front with each wave speed.     

Pattern formation in a nonlinear model for animal coats

Several models have been proposed for describing the formation of animal coat patterns. We consider reaction-diffusion models due to Murray, which rely on a Turing instability for the pattern selection. In this paper, we describe the early stages of the pattern formation process for large domain sizes. This includes the selection mechanism and the geometry of the patterns generated by the nonlinear system on one-, two-, and three-dimensional base domains. These results are obtained by an adaptation of results explaining the occurrence of spinodal decomposition in materials science as modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We use techniques of dynamical systems, viewing solutions of the reaction-diffusion model in terms of nonlinear semiflows. Our results are applicable to any parabolic system exhibiting a Turing instability.     

Existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling waves for the delayed Fisher equation

In this paper a new approach based on a shooting method in a half line coupled with the technique of upper-lower solution pair is used to study the existence and nonexistence of monotone waves for one form of the delayed Fisher equation that does not have the quasimonotonicity property. A necessary and sufficient condition is provided. This new method can be extended to investigate many other nonlocal and non-monotone delayed reaction-diffusion equations.     

Front motion in the parabolic reaction-diffusion problem

A singularly perturbed initial-boundary value problem is considered for a parabolic equation known in applications as the reaction-diffusion equation. An asymptotic expansion of solutions with a moving front is constructed, and an existence theorem for such solutions is proved. The asymptotic expansion is substantiated using the asymptotic method of differential inequalities, which is extended to the class of problems under study. The method is based on well-known comparison theorems and is a development of the idea of using formal asymptotics for the construction of upper and lower solutions in singularly perturbed problems with internal and boundary layers.     

Traveling wavefronts for time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation: (II) Nonlocal nonlinearity

This is the second part of a series of study on the stability of traveling wavefronts of reaction-diffusion equations with time delays. In this paper we will consider a nonlocal time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation. When the initial perturbation around the traveling wave decays exponentially as x→−∞ (but the initial perturbation can be arbitrarily large in other locations), we prove the asymptotic stability of all traveling waves for the reaction-diffusion equation, including even the slower waves whose speed are close to the critical speed. This essentially improves the previous stability results by Mei and So [M. Mei, J.W.-H. So, Stability of strong traveling waves for a nonlocal time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 138 (2008) 551-568] for the speed with a small initial perturbation. The approach we use here is the weighted energy method, but the weight function is more tricky to construct due to the property of the critical wavefront, and the difficulty arising from the nonlocal nonlinearity is also overcome. Finally, by using the Crank-Nicholson scheme, we present some numerical results which confirm our theoretical study.     

Axially asymmetric traveling fronts in balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equations

For a balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation, an axisymmetric traveling front has been well known. This paper proves that an axially asymmetric traveling front with any positive speed does exist in a balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation. Our method is as follows. We use a pyramidal traveling front for an unbalanced reaction-diffusion equation whose cross section has a major axis and a minor axis. Preserving the ratio of the major axis and a minor axis to be a constant and taking the balanced limit, we obtain a traveling front in a balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation. This traveling front is monotone decreasing with respect to the traveling axis, and its cross section is a compact set with a major axis and a minor axis when the constant ratio is not 1.     

半线性奇摄动反应扩散方程初边值问题解的渐近性(英文)

本文运用边界层以及角点层函数法构造了一类半线性奇摄动反应扩散方程初边值问题解的渐近展开式 ,并用微分不等式方法证明了该展式达到任一精度的一致有效性     

On the geometry of wave solutions of a delayed reaction-diffusion equation

The aim of this paper is to study the existence and the geometry of positive bounded wave solutions to a non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation of the monostable type.     

A comparative analysis of adaptive algorithms in the finite element method for solving the boundary value problem for a stationary reaction-diffusion equation

A new adaptive algorithm is proposed for constructing grids in the hp-version of the finite element method with piecewise polynomial basis functions. This algorithm allows us to find a solution (with local singularities) to the boundary value problem for a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation and smooth the grid solution via the adaptive elimination and addition of grid nodes. This algorithm is compared to one proposed earlier that adaptively refines the grid and deletes nodes with the help of an estimate for the local effect of trial addition of new basis functions and the removal of old ones. Results are presented from numerical experiments aimed at assessing the performance of the proposed algorithm on a singularly perturbed model problem with a smooth solution.     

A parameter robust numerical method for a two dimensional reaction-diffusion problem

In this paper a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion partial differential equation in two space dimensions is examined. By means of an appropriate decomposition, we describe the asymptotic behaviour of the solution of problems of this kind. A central finite difference scheme is constructed for this problem which involves an appropriate Shishkin mesh. We prove that the numerical approximations are almost second order uniformly convergent (in the maximum norm) with respect to the singular perturbation parameter. Some numerical experiments are given that illustrate in practice the theoretical order of convergence established for the numerical method.

     

Ergodicity for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations

In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of invariant measures for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations driven by multiplicative noise on a bounded domain. The main results can be applied to SPDEs of various types such as the stochastic Burgers equation and the reaction-diffusion equations perturbed by space-time white noise.     

Planar Radial Spots in a Three-Component FitzHugh�CNagumo System

Localized planar patterns arise in many reaction-diffusion models. Most of the paradigm equations that have been studied so far are two-component models. While stationary localized structures are often found to be stable in such systems, travelling patterns either do not exist or are found to be unstable. In contrast, numerical simulations indicate that localized travelling structures can be stable in three-component systems. As a first step towards explaining this phenomenon, a planar singularly perturbed three-component reaction-diffusion system that arises in the context of gas-discharge systems is analysed in this paper. Using geometric singular perturbation theory, the existence and stability regions of radially symmetric stationary spot solutions are delineated and, in particular, stable spots are shown to exist in appropriate parameter regimes. This result opens up the possibility of identifying and analysing drift and Hopf bifurcations, and their criticality, from the stationary spots described here.     

Generalized fronts in reaction-diffusion equations with mono-stable nonlinearity

We consider transition fronts (generalized traveling fronts) of mono-stable reaction-diffusion equations with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearity. By constructing a cutoff function and using an approximate method, we establish the existence of transition fronts of the equation. Furthermore, we give the uniform non-degeneracy estimates of the solutions, such as a lower bound on the time derivative on some level sets, as well as an upper bound on the spatial derivative.     

Approximation of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems by quadratic C 1-splines

Collocation with quadratic C ¹-splines for a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem in one dimension is studied. A modified Shishkin mesh is used to resolve the layers. The resulting method is shown to be almost second order accurate in the maximum norm, uniformly in the perturbation parameter. Furthermore, a posteriori error bounds are derived for the collocation method on arbitrary meshes. These bounds are used to drive an adaptive mesh moving algorithm. Numerical results are presented.     

A Finite Element Method for Singularly Perturbed Reaction—diffusion Problems

A finite element method is proposed for the sing ularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem.An optimal error bound is derived,independent of the perturbation parameter.     

A coupled system of singularly perturbed parabolic reaction-diffusion equations

In this paper systems with an arbitrary number of singularly perturbed parabolic reaction-diffusion equations are examined. A numerical method is constructed for these systems which involves an appropriate layer-adapted piecewise-uniform mesh. The numerical approximations generated from this method are shown to be uniformly convergent with respect to the singular perturbation parameters. Numerical experiments supporting the theoretical results are given.     

Spreading speeds and traveling waves for periodic evolution systems

The theory of spreading speeds and traveling waves for monotone autonomous semiflows is extended to periodic semiflows in the monostable case. Then these abstract results are applied to a periodic system modeling man-environment-man epidemics, a periodic time-delayed and diffusive equation, and a periodic reaction-diffusion equation on a cylinder.     

The uniform saturation property for a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equation

Although adaptive finite element methods for solving elliptic problems often work well in practice, they are usually not proven to converge. For Poisson like problems, an exception is given by the method of Dörfler ([8]), that was later improved by Morin, Nochetto and Siebert ([11]). In this paper we extend these methods by constructing an adaptive finite element method for a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equation that, in energy norm, converges uniformly in the size of the reaction term. Moreover, in this algorithm the arising Galerkin systems are solved only inexactly, so that, generally, the number of arithmetic operations is equivalent to the number of triangles in the final partition.This work was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and by the EU-IHP project “Breaking Complexity.”     

An almost third order finite difference scheme for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion systems

This paper addresses the numerical approximation of solutions to coupled systems of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems. In particular a hybrid finite difference scheme of HODIE type is constructed on a piecewise uniform Shishkin mesh. It is proved that the numerical scheme satisfies a discrete maximum principle and also that it is third order (except for a logarithmic factor) uniformly convergent, even for the case in which the diffusion parameter associated with each equation of the system has a different order of magnitude. Numerical examples supporting the theory are given.     

Analysis of stable two-dimensional patterns in contractile cytogel

Summary Contractile actomyosin systems play a central role in the generation of intracellular patterns. Models for pattern formation have benefited greatly from the application of mechanochemical theory. However, investigations of the patterns have been primarily qualitative in nature; the two-dimensional nature of the evolving patterns has not yet been addressed mathematically, nor has the evolution of stable heterogeneous steady-state solutions. We consider these issues, supporting our analytical predictions with numerical simulations in one and two spatial dimensions. We show how, for certain gels, the two and three-dimensional tensor equation which describes a balance of forces can be reduced to a reaction-diffusion equation.