Global Dynamics of the Oregonator System

In this work, the existence and properties of a global attractor for the solution semiflow of the Oregonator system are proved. The Oregonator system is the mathematical model of the celebrated Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction. A rescaling and grouping estimation method is developed to show the absorbing property and the asymptotic compactness of the solution trajectories of this three‐component reaction–diffusion system with quadratic nonlinearity. It is also proved that the fractal dimension of the global attractor is finite and an exponential attractor exists for the Oregonator semiflow. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global behavior of solutions in a Lotka–Volterra predator–prey model with prey-stage structure

In this paper, the global behavior of solutions is investigated for a Lotka–Volterra predator–prey system with prey-stage structure. First, we can see that the stability properties of nonnegative equilibria for the weakly coupled reaction–diffusion system are similar to that for the corresponding ODE system, that is, linear self-diffusions do not drive instability. Second, using Sobolev embedding theorems and bootstrap arguments, the existence and uniqueness of nonnegative global classical solution for the strongly coupled cross-diffusion system are proved when the space dimension is less than 10. Finally, the existence and uniform boundedness of global solutions and the stability of the positive equilibrium point for the cross-diffusion system are studied when the space dimension is one. It is found that the cross-diffusion system is dissipative if the diffusion matrix is positive definite. Furthermore, cross diffusions cannot induce pattern formation if the linear diffusion rates are sufficiently large.     

Global existence in a food chain model consisting of two competitive preys,one predator and chemotaxis

A model for the spatio-temporal evolution of three biological species in a food chain model consisting of two competitive preys and one predator with intra-specific competition is considered. Besides diffusing, the predator species moves toward higher concentrations of a chemical substance produced by the prey. The prey, in turn, moves away from high concentrations of a substance secreted by the predators. The resulting reaction–diffusion system consists of three parabolic equations along with three elliptic equations describing the diffusion of the chemical substances. The local existence of nonnegative solutions is proved. Then uniform estimates in Lebesgue spaces are provided. These estimates lead to boundedness and global well-posedness for the system. Numerical simulations are presented and discussed.     

Competitive exclusion in a nonlocal reaction–diffusion–advection model of phytoplankton populations

We continue our study on the global dynamics of a nonlocal reaction–diffusion–advection system modeling the population dynamics of two competing phytoplankton species in a eutrophic environment, where both populations depend solely on light for their metabolism. In our previous work, we proved that system (1.1) is a strongly monotone dynamical system with respect to a non-standard cone related to the cumulative distribution functions, and further determined the global dynamics when the species have either identical diffusion rate or identical advection rate. In this paper, we study the trade-off of diffusion and advection and their joint influence on the outcome of competition. Two critical curves for the local stability of two semi-trivial equilibria are analyzed, and some new competitive exclusion results are obtained. Our main tools, besides the theory of monotone dynamical system, include some new monotonicity results for the principal eigenvalues of elliptic operators in one-dimensional domains.     

具有功能性反应的非自治竞争系统的持续性

本文讨论了具有 类功能性反应的非自治扩散竞争系统 .在一定条件下证明了系统是持续的 ,给出了系统全局渐近稳定的充分条件 .     

A generalized Degn–Harrison reaction–diffusion system: Asymptotic stability and non-existence results

In this paper we study the Degn–Harrison system with a generalized reaction term. Once proved the global existence and boundedness of a unique solution, we address the asymptotic behavior of the system. The conditions for the global asymptotic stability of the steady state solution are derived using the appropriate techniques based on the eigen-analysis, the Poincaré–Bendixson theorem and the direct Lyapunov method. Numerical simulations are also shown to corroborate the asymptotic stability predictions.Moreover, we determine the constraints on the size of the reactor and the diffusion coefficient such that the system does not admit non-constant positive steady state solutions.     

种群扩散系数互异系统解的一致有界性

采用积分估计的方法证明了弱耦合反应扩散系统整体解的存在性和一致有界性,该系统是扩散系数互异的食物链模型,并通过举例进一步说明该方法的普适性.     

Effect of diffusion on a two-species eco-epidemiological model

This paper deals with the stabilizing effect of diffusion on a prey?–?predator system where the prey population is infected by a microparasite. The predator functional response is a concave-type function. Conditions for the local as well as global stability of the model without diffusion are derived in terms of system parameters. It is also shown that an unstable equilibrium of the model without diffusion can be made stable by increasing the diffusion coefficients appropriately.     

一类具交错扩散的强耦合退化抛物方程组解的整体存在与非存在性

本文研究了一类具交错扩散的强耦合拟线性退化抛物方程组初边值问题正古典解的局部存在,整体存在与非整体存在性.利用正则化方法和先验估计技巧证明了该问题正古典解的局部存在性,并且分别给出了该问题是否存在整体古典解的充分条件.结果表明当种群内竞争强于种群间互惠作用时,此问题存在整体解;而当两种群具有强互惠作用时,所有解都是非整体的.     

Uniform boundedness and convergence of solutions to the systems with cross-diffusions dominated by self-diffusions

Uniform boundedness and convergence of global solutions are proved for quasilinear parabolic systems with cross-diffusions dominated by self-diffusions in population dynamics. Gagliardo–Nirenberg-type inequalities are used in the estimates of solutions in order to establish W₂¹-bounds uniform in time. In each step of estimates the contribution of the diffusion coefficients is emphasized, and it is concluded that the uniform bound remains independent of the growth of the diffusion coefficient in the system. Hence, convergence of solutions is established for systems with large diffusion coefficients.     

Analysis of Caughley model with diffusion from mathematical ecology

We provide an analysis in function spaces of the nonlinear semigroup generated by the Caughley model with varied diffusion from mathematical ecology. The global long time asymptotic dynamics of the system of equations are well posed in the sense of an attractor. The behaviour of this attractor in small diffusion coefficients is studied. Two limit problems depending on the stability of the spatial domain in diffusion coefficients are obtained. An adequate scaling of the space variable yields a diffusion coefficients dependent spatial domain. The limit model equations are defined in the complete space of the domain and its diffusion coefficients are unitary. If the domain does not change with the diffusion coefficients, we obtain as a limit problem the system of equations with zero diffusion coefficients and no boundary conditions. The family of attractors in small diffusion coefficients is proved in the Hausdroff semidistance of sets to converge in the uniform topology of continuous functions.     

Global existence and large time behavior of solutions for the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic models in the quarter plane

In this paper, we discuss a bipolar transient quantum hydrodynamic model for charge density, current density, and electric field in the quarter plane. This model takes the form of a classical Euler–Poisson system with the additional dispersion terms caused by the quantum (Bohn) potential. We show global existence of smooth solutions for the initial boundary value problem when the initial data are near the nonlinear diffusive waves, which are different from the steady state. We also show the asymptotical behavior of the global smooth solution towards the nonlinear diffusive waves and obtain the algebraic decay rates. These results are proved by elaborate energy methods. Finally, using the Fourier analysis, we obtain the optimal convergence rates of the solutions towards the nonlinear diffusion waves. As far as we known, this is the first result about the initial boundary value problem of the one‐dimensional bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model in the quarter plane. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cross-diffusion induced Turing instability for a three species food chain model

In this paper, we study a strongly coupled reaction–diffusion system describing three interacting species in a food chain model, where the third species preys on the second one and simultaneously the second species preys on the first one. We first show that the unique positive equilibrium solution is globally asymptotically stable for the corresponding ODE system. The positive equilibrium solution remains linearly stable for the reaction–diffusion system without cross-diffusion, hence it does not belong to the classical Turing instability scheme. We further proved that the positive equilibrium solution is globally asymptotically stable for the reaction–diffusion system without cross-diffusion by constructing a Lyapunov function. But it becomes linearly unstable only when cross-diffusion also plays a role in the reaction–diffusion system, hence the instability is driven solely from the effect of cross-diffusion. Our results also exhibit some interesting combining effects of cross-diffusion, intra-species competitions and inter-species interactions.     

Analysis of a predator–prey model with modified Holling–Tanner functional response and time delay

In paper, a predator–prey model with modified Holling–Tanner functional response and time delay is discussed. It is proved that the system is permanent under some appropriate conditions. The local stability of the equilibria is investigated. By constructing a suitable Lyapunov functional, sufficient conditions are derived for the global stability of the positive equilibrium of the model.     

On an evolution system describing self-gravitating particles in microcanonical setting

The global in time existence of solutions of a system describing the interaction of gravitationally attracting particles with a general diffusion term is proved. The presented theory covers the case of the model with diffusion that obeys the Fermi–Dirac statistics. Some of the results apply to the dissipative polytropic case as well.     

Reaction diffusion equation with spatio-temporal delay

We investigate reaction–diffusion equation with spatio-temporal delays, the global existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of solutions for which in relation to constant steady-state solution, included in the region of attraction of a stable steady solution. It is shown that if the delay reaction function satisfies some conditions and the system possesses a pair of upper and lower solutions then there exists a unique global solution. In terms of the maximal and minimal constant solutions of the corresponding steady-state problem, we get the asymptotic stability of reaction–diffusion equation with spatio-temporal delay. Applying this theory to Lotka–Volterra model with spatio-temporal delay, we get the global solution asymptotically tend to the steady-state problem’s steady-state solution.     

On the dynamics of a predator–prey model with nonconstant death rate and diffusion

The main goal of this paper is to describe the global dynamic of a predator–prey model with nonconstant death rate and diffusion. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions under which the system is dissipative and permanent. We study the global stability of the nontrivial equilibrium, when it is unique. Finally, we show that there are no nontrivial steady state solutions for certain parameter configuration.     

Mathematical analysis of a tumor invasion model—global existence and stability

This work studies an outstanding reaction–diffusion system modeling tumor invasion, with interactions among tumor tissue, acid concentration and normal tissue. This model has very different features from the models extensively studied in the mathematics literature. The most challenge issue for mathematical analysis of the present model is the existence of classical solution, since the diffusion of tumor tissue is influenced by the density of normal cells and diffusion degeneracy arises when normal cells are at the carrying capacity. A rigorous proof of global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions is presented. Moreover, we study global dynamics of the solution, and show asymptotic stability of the four possible constant equilibria under various scenarios.     

Existence and stability of stationary solutions to spatially extended autocatalytic and hypercyclic systems under global regulation and with nonlinear growth rates

An analytical analysis of spatially extended autocatalytic and hypercyclic systems is presented. It is shown that spatially explicit systems in the form of reaction–diffusion equations with global regulation possess the same major qualitative features as the corresponding local models. In particular, using the introduced notion of the stability in the mean integral sense we prove the competitive exclusion principle for the autocatalytic system and the permanence for the hypercycle system. Existence and stability of stationary solutions are studied. For some parameter values it is proved that stable spatially non-uniform solutions appear.     

A predator–prey system with stage-structure for predator and nonlocal delay

This paper deals with the behavior of solutions to the reaction–diffusion system under homogeneous Neumann boundary condition, which describes a prey–predator model with nonlocal delay. Sufficient conditions for the global stability of each equilibrium are derived by the Lyapunov functional and the results show that the introduction of stage-structure into predator positively affects the coexistence of prey and predator. Numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the results.