Traveling waves in a nonlocal dispersal SIR epidemic model

This paper is concerned with traveling wave solutions of a nonlocal dispersal SIR epidemic model. The existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions are determined by the basic reproduction number and the minimal wave speed. This threshold dynamics are proved by Schauder’s fixed point theorem and the Laplace transform. The main difficulties are that the semiflow generated by the model does not have the order-preserving property and the solutions lack of regularity.     

Traveling waves for a reaction–diffusion–advection predator–prey model

In this paper we study a reaction–diffusion–advection predator–prey model in a river. The existence of predator-invasion traveling wave solutions and prey-spread traveling wave solutions in the upstream and downstream directions is established and the corresponding minimal wave speeds are obtained. While some crucial improvements in theoretical methods have been established, the proofs of the existence and nonexistence of such traveling waves are based on Schauder’s fixed-point theorem, LaSalle’s invariance principle and Laplace transform. Based on theoretical results, we investigate the effect of the hydrological and biological factors on minimal wave speeds and hence on the spread of the prey and the invasion of the predator in the river. The linear determinacy of the predator–prey Lotka–Volterra system is compared with nonlinear determinacy of the competitive Lotka–Volterra system to investigate the mechanics of linear and nonlinear determinacy.     

Propagation dynamics of a three-species nonlocal competitive–cooperative system

This paper is concerned with the existence, monotonicity, asymptotic behavior and uniqueness of traveling wave solutions for a three-species competitive–cooperative system with nonlocal dispersal and bistable dynamics. By considering a related truncated problem, we first establish the existence and strict monotonicity of traveling waves by means of a limiting argument and a comparative lemma. Then the asymptotic behavior of traveling waves is investigated by using Ikehara’s lemma and bilateral Laplace transform. Finally, we obtain the uniqueness of wave speed and traveling wave by sliding method.     

Traveling wave solutions for a delayed diffusive SIR epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate and external supplies

In this paper, we study the traveling wave solutions of a delayed diffusive SIR epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate and constant external supplies. We find that the existence of traveling wave solutions is determined by the basic reproduction number of the corresponding spatial‐homogenous delay differential system and the minimal wave speed. The existence is proved by applying Schauder's fixed point theorem and Lyapunov functional method. The non‐existence of traveling waves is obtained by two‐sided Laplace transform. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Traveling wave solutions in a delayed diffusive competition system

In this paper we first investigate the existence of traveling wave fronts in a delayed diffusive competition system by constructing a pair of upper and lower solutions. Then we consider the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions at the minus/plus infinity by means of the bilateral Laplace transform. Finally, the monotonicity and uniqueness (up to the translation) of traveling wave solutions are also obtained by the strong comparison principle and the sliding method.     

Existence of traveling wave solutions for influenza model with treatment

To investigate the spreading speed of influenza and the influence of treatment on the spreading speed, a reaction–diffusion influenza model with treatment is established. The existence of traveling wave solutions is shown by introducing an auxiliary system and applying the Schauder fixed point theorem. The non-existence of traveling wave solutions is proved by a two-sided Laplace transform, which needs a new approach for the prior estimate of exponential decay of traveling wave solutions.     

An SIS epidemic model with diffusion

The aim of this paper is to study the dynamics of an SIS epidemic model with diffusion. We first study the well-posedness of the model. And then, by using linearization method and constructing suitable Lyapunov function, we establish the local and global stability of the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium, respectively. Furthermore, in view of Schauder fixed point theorem, we show that the model admits traveling wave solutions connecting the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium when R_0 1 and c c~*. And also, by virtue of the two-sided Laplace transform, we prove that the model has no traveling wave solution connecting the two equilibria when R_0 1 and c ∈ [0, c~*).     

Pulse Propagation in a Cylindrical Elastic Shell Filled with a Viscous Fluid

The propagation of waves generated by pressure pulses in a cylindrical elastic shell filled with a viscous fluid is investigated. The problem models the propagation of a pulse pressure wave in a blood vessel and is solved by means of Laplace transforms. This approach permits analytical solutions to be constructed in transform space. The original functions are recovered by numerical inversion of the Laplace transform. The results are analyzed for various values of the parameters.     

Different kinds of exact solutions with two-loop character of the two-component short pulse equations of the first kind

In this paper, by using the integral bifurcation method and the Sakovich’s transformations, we study the two-component short pulse equations of the first kind, different kinds of exact traveling wave solutions with two-loop character, such as two-loop soliton solutions, periodic loop-compacton wave solutions and different kinds of periodic two-loop wave solutions are obtained. Further, we discuss their dynamical behaviors of these exact traveling wave solutions and show their profiles of time evolution by illustrations. This is first time in our research area that we obtain two-soliton solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations under no help of Hirota’s method, inverse scattering method, Darboux transformation and Bächlund transformation.     

Existence and asymptotics of traveling waves for nonlocal diffusion systems

In this paper, we deal with the existence and asymptotic behavior of traveling waves for nonlocal diffusion systems with delayed monostable reaction terms. We obtain the existence of traveling wave front by using upper-lower solutions method and Schauder’s fixed point theorem for c > c₁(τ) and using a limiting argument for c = c₁(τ). Moreover, we find a priori asymptotic behavior of traveling waves with the help of Ikehara’s Theorem by constructing a Laplace transform representation of a solution. Especially, the delay can slow the minimal wave speed for ?₂f(0, 0) > 0 and the delay is independent of the minimal wave speed for ?₂f(0, 0) = 0.     

Laplace’s transform of fractional order via the Mittag–Leffler function and modified Riemann–Liouville derivative

We propose a (new) definition of a fractional Laplace’s transform, or Laplace’s transform of fractional order, which applies to functions which are fractional differentiable but are not differentiable, in such a manner that they cannot be analyzed by using the Djrbashian fractional derivative. After a short survey on fractional analysis based on the modified Riemann–Liouville derivative, we define the fractional Laplace’s transform. Evidence for the main properties of this fractal transformation is given, and we obtain a fractional Laplace inversion theorem.     

Traveling wave solutions in a delayed lattice competition-cooperation system

In this paper, we first reduce the existence of traveling wave solutions in a delayed lattice competition-cooperation system to the existence of a pair of upper and lower solutions by means of Schauder’s fixed point theorem and the cross iteration scheme, and then we construct a pair of upper and lower solutions to obtain the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions. We also consider the asymptotic behaviour of any nonnegative traveling wave solutions at negative infinity.     

Traveling waves for a periodic Lotka–Volterra predator–prey system

This paper is concerned with the time periodic traveling wave solutions for a periodic Lotka–Volterra predator–prey system, which formulates that both species synchronously invade a new habitat. We first establish the existence of periodic traveling wave solutions by combining the upper and lower solutions with contracting mapping principle and Schauder’s fixed point theorem. The asymptotic behavior of nontrivial solution is given precisely by the stability of the corresponding kinetic system that has been widely investigated. Then, the nonexistence of periodic traveling wave solutions is confirmed by applying the theory of asymptotic spreading. We show the conclusion for all positive wave speed and obtain the minimal wave speed.     

Traveling waves for a diffusive SEIR epidemic model with standard incidences

This paper is devoted to the existence of the traveling waves of the equations describing a diffusive susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered(SEIR) model. The existence of traveling waves depends on the basic reproduction rate and the minimal wave speed. We obtain a more precise estimation of the minimal wave speed of the epidemic model, which is of great practical value in the control of serious epidemics. The approach in this paper is to use the Schauder fixed point theorem and the Laplace transform. We also give some numerical results on the minimal wave speed.     

Periodic traveling wave solution for non-homogeneous BBM and KdVB equations

In this paper the Green’s function method and results about fixed point are used to get existence results on periodic traveling wave solution for non-homogeneous problems of generalized versions of the BBM and KdVB equations. It is shown through the constructions of explicit Green’s functions that the periodic boundary value problems for the traveling wave solutions of the BBM and KdVB equations are equivalent to integral equations which generate compact operators in the space of periodic functions. These integral representations allowed us to prove that if the speed of the wave propagation is suitably chosen, then the BBM and KdVB equations will admit periodic traveling wave solution.     

Families of traveling impulses and fronts in some models with cross-diffusion

An analysis of traveling wave solutions of partial differential equation (PDE) systems with cross-diffusion is presented. The systems under study fall in a general class of the classical Keller–Segel models to describe chemotaxis. The analysis is conducted using the theory of the phase plane analysis of the corresponding wave systems without a priory restrictions on the boundary conditions of the initial PDE. Special attention is paid to families of traveling wave solutions. Conditions for existence of front–impulse, impulse–front, and front–front traveling wave solutions are formulated. In particular, the simplest mathematical model is presented that has an impulse–impulse solution; we also show that a non-isolated singular point in the ordinary differential equation (ODE) wave system implies existence of free-boundary fronts. The results can be used for construction and analysis of different mathematical models describing systems with chemotaxis.     

Application of the Laplace decomposition method for solving linear and nonlinear fractional diffusion–wave equations

In this paper, the Laplace decomposition method is employed to obtain approximate analytical solutions of the linear and nonlinear fractional diffusion–wave equations. This method is a combined form of the Laplace transform method and the Adomian decomposition method. The proposed scheme finds the solutions without any discretization or restrictive assumptions and is free from round-off errors and therefore, reduces the numerical computations to a great extent. The fractional derivative described here is in the Caputo sense. Some illustrative examples are presented and the results show that the solutions obtained by using this technique have close agreement with series solutions obtained with the help of the Adomian decomposition method.     

Traveling wave fronts in a delayed lattice competitive system

This paper is concerned with the existence, asymptotic behavior, strict monotonicity, and uniqueness of traveling wave fronts connecting two half-positive equilibria in a delayed lattice competitive system. We first prove the existence of traveling wave fronts by constructing upper and lower solutions and Schauder’s fixed point theorem, and then, for sufficiently small intraspecific competitive delays, prove that these traveling wave fronts decay exponentially at both infinities. Furthermore, for system without intraspecific competitive delays, the strict monotonicity and uniqueness of traveling wave fronts are established by means of the sliding method. In addition, we give the exact decay rate of the stronger competitor under some technique conditions by appealing to uniqueness.     

Existence of traveling wave solutions for diffusive predator–prey type systems

In this work we investigate the existence of traveling wave solutions for a class of diffusive predator–prey type systems whose each nonlinear term can be separated as a product of suitable smooth functions satisfying some monotonic conditions. The profile equations for the above system can be reduced as a four-dimensional ODE system, and the traveling wave solutions which connect two different equilibria or the small amplitude traveling wave train solutions are equivalent to the heteroclinic orbits or small amplitude periodic solutions of the reduced system. Applying the methods of Wazewski Theorem, LaSalle?s Invariance Principle and Hopf bifurcation theory, we obtain the existence results. Our results can apply to various kinds of ecological models.     

Solitary Waves, periodic peakons, pseudo-peakons and compactons given by three ion-acoustic wave models in electron plasmas

The nonlinear ion-acoustic oscillations models are governed by three partial differential equation systems. Their travelling wave equations are three first class singular traveling wave systems depending on different parameter groups, respectively. By using the method of dynamical system and the theory of singular traveling wave systems, in this paper, it is shown that there exist parameter groups such that these singular systems have solitary wave solutions, pseudo-peakons, periodic peakons and compactons as well as kink and anti-kink wave solutions. The results of this paper complete the studies of three papers [5,13] and [14].