Asymptotic speeds of spread and traveling waves for integral equations and delayed reaction-diffusion models

The theory of asymptotic speeds of spread and monotone traveling waves is generalized to a large class of scalar nonlinear integral equations and is applied to some time-delayed reaction and diffusion population models.     

On the existence of traveling waves for delayed reaction-diffusion equations

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delay, where reaction terms are not necessarily monotone. The existence of traveling wave solutions for reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delays is obtained by combining upper and lower solutions for associated integral equations and the Schauder fixed point theorem. The smoothness of upper and lower solutions is not required in this paper.     

Traveling waves for delayed non-local diffusion equations with crossing-monostability

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves for a class of delayed non-local diffusion equations with crossing-monostability. Based on constructing two associated auxiliary delayed non-local diffusion equations with quasi-monotonicity and a profile set in a suitable Banach space using the traveling wave fronts of the auxiliary equations, the existence of traveling waves is proved by Schauder’s fixed point theorem. The result implies that the traveling waves of the delayed non-local diffusion equations with crossing-monostability are persistent for all values of the delay τ?0.     

Perron Theorem in the monotone iteration method for traveling waves in delayed reaction-diffusion equations

In this paper we revisit the existence of traveling waves for delayed reaction-diffusion equations by the monotone iteration method. We show that Perron Theorem on existence of bounded solution provides a rigorous and constructive framework to find traveling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion systems with time delay. The method is tried out on two classical examples with delay: the predator-prey and Belousov-Zhabotinskii models.     

Global stability of traveling wavefronts for nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time delay

This paper is concerned with the stability of traveling wavefronts for a population dynamics model with time delay. Combining the weighted energy method and the comparison principle, the global exponential stability of noncritical traveling wavefronts(waves with speeds c c_*, where c = c~* is the minimal speed) is established, when the initial perturbations around the wavefront decays to zero exponentially in space as x →-∞, but it can be allowed arbitrary large in other locations, which improves the results in [9, 18, 21].     

Traveling waves for nonlocal and non-monotone delayed reaction-diffusion equations

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a nonlocal and non-monotone delayed reaction-diffusion equation. Based on the construction of two associated auxiliary reaction diffusion equations with monotonicity and by using the traveling wavefronts of the auxiliary equations, the existence of the positive traveling wave solutions for c 〉 c. is obtained. Also, the exponential asymptotic behavior in the negative infinity was established. Moreover, we apply our results to some reactiondiffusion equations with spatio-temporal delay to obtain the existence of traveling waves. These results cover, complement and/or improve some existing ones in the literature.     

Asymptotic stability for delayed logistic type equations

We study the stability of scalar delayed equations of logistic type with a positive equilibrium and a linear logistic term. The global asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium, called the carrying capacity, is proven imposing a condition on a negative feedback term without delay dominating the delayed effect. It turns out that this assumption is a necessary and sufficient condition for the linearized equation about the positive equilibrium to be asymptotically stable, globally in the delays. The global stability of more general scalar delay differential equations is also addressed.     

Multidimensional stability of planar waves for delayed reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal diffusion

In this paper, we consider the multidimensional stability of planar waves for a class of nonlocal dispersal equation in $n$--dimensional space with time delay. We prove that all noncritical planar waves are exponentially stable in $L^{\infty}(\RR^n )$ in the form of $\ee^{-\mu_{\tau} t}$ for some constant $\mu_{\tau} =\mu(\tau)>0$( $\tau >0$ is the time delay) by using comparison principle and Fourier transform. It is also realized that, the effect of time delay essentially causes the decay rate of the solution slowly down. While, for the critical planar waves, we prove that they are asymptotically stable by establishing some estimates in weighted $L^1(\RR^n)$ space and $H^k(\RR^n) (k \geq [\frac{n+1}{2}])$ space.     

Multidimensional stability of traveling fronts in monostable reaction-diffusion equations with complex perturbations

This paper studies the multidimensional stability of traveling fronts in monostable reaction-difusion equations,including Ginzburg-Landau equations and Fisher-KPP equations.Eckmann and Wayne(1994)showed a one-dimensional stability result of traveling fronts with speeds c c(the critical speed)under complex perturbations.In the present work,we prove that these traveling fronts are also asymptotically stable subject to complex perturbations in multiple space dimensions(n=2,3),employing weighted energy methods.     

Global stability of traveling wave fronts for non-local delayed lattice differential equations

This paper is concerned with the global stability of traveling wave fronts of a non-local delayed lattice differential equation. By the comparison principle together with the semi-discrete Fourier transform, we prove that, all noncritical traveling wave fronts are globally stable in the form of t^−1/αe^−μt for some constants μ>0 and 0<α≤2, and the critical traveling wave fronts are globally stable in the algebraic form of t^−1/α.     

Asymptotic stability of traveling waves in a discrete convolution model for phase transitions

In a recent paper [P. Bates, A. Chmaj, A discrete convolution model for phase transition, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 150 (1999) 281-305], a discrete convolution model for Ising-like phase transition has been derived, and the existence, uniqueness of traveling waves and stability of stationary solution have been studied. This nonlocal model describes l₂-gradient flow for a Helmholts free energy functional with general range interaction. In this paper, by using the comparison principle and the squeezing technique, we prove that the traveling wavefronts with nonzero speed is globally asymptotic stable with phase shift.     

Asymptotic behaviour of nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations

The existence of a global attractor in L²(Ω) is established for a reaction-diffusion equation on a bounded domain Ω in R^d with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where the reaction term contains an operator F:L²(Ω)→L²(Ω) which is nonlocal and possibly nonlinear. Existence of weak solutions is established, but uniqueness is not required. Compactness of the multivalued flow is obtained via estimates obtained from limits of Galerkin approximations. In contrast with the usual situation, these limits apply for all and not just for almost all time instants.     

Travelling waves for reaction-diffusion equations with time depending nonlinearities

The existence of travelling wave with given end points for parabolic system of nonlinear equations is proven. The nonlinear term depends also on a·x−ct where x is the multidimensional space variable, t—time, c—the speed of the wave and a—the direction of travel.     

Approximating the traveling wavefront for a nonlocal delayed reaction-diffusion equation

In this paper a boundary layer method is combined with an asymptotic expansion method to approximate the traveling wave solution of a nonlocal delayed reaction-diffusion model. In particular, assuming that the diffusion coefficients of the mature and immature populations are small, the wave solution is approximated in three steps. First, the model is reduced by considering the Dirac delta function as the kernel function of the integral term. Second, a boundary layer method is employed to approximate the wave solution of the reduced model. Third, using this result and the generalized Watson’s lemma, the wave solution of the general model is approximated. By considering various birth functions, the approximate wave solutions are numerically compared with the exact wave solutions.     

Existence of traveling wavefronts of discrete reaction-diffusion equations with delay

In this paper, we investigate the temporally discrete reaction-diffusion with delay. By using Schauder’s fixed point theorem, we establish the existence of traveling wave fronts. The main result is applied to a delayed and discretely diffusive model for the population of Daphnia magna.     

Asymptotic nonlinear stability of traveling waves to conservation laws arising from chemotaxis

In this paper, we establish the existence and the nonlinear stability of traveling wave solutions to a system of conservation laws which is transformed, by a change of variable, from the well-known Keller-Segel model describing cell (bacteria) movement toward the concentration gradient of the chemical that is consumed by the cells. We prove the existence of traveling fronts by the phase plane analysis and show the asymptotic nonlinear stability of traveling wave solutions without the smallness assumption on the wave strengths by the method of energy estimates.     

Exclusive traveling waves for competitive reaction-diffusion systems and their stabilities

We study the existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior, as well as the stability of a special kind of traveling wave solutions for competitive PDE systems involving intrinsic growth, competition, crowding effects and diffusion. The traveling waves are exclusive in the sense that as the variable goes to positive or negative infinity, different species are close to extinction or carrying capacity. We perform an appropriate affine transformation of the traveling wave equations into monotone form and construct appropriate upper and lower solutions. By this means, we reduce the existence proof to application of well-known theory about monotone traveling wave systems (cf. [A. Leung, Systems of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Applications to Biology and Engineering, MIA, Kluwer, Boston, 1989; J. Wu, X. Zou, Traveling wave fronts of reaction-diffusion systems with delay, J. Dynam. Differential Equations 13 (2001) 651-687] and [I. Volpert, V. Volpert, V. Volpert, Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Systems, Transl. Math. Monogr., vol. 140, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994]). Then, by using spectral analysis of the linearization over the profile, we prove the orbital stability of the traveling wave in some Banach spaces with exponentially weighted norm. Furthermore, we show that the introduction of some weight is necessary in the sense that, in general, traveling wave solutions with initial perturbations in the (unweighted) space C₀ are unstable (cf. [I. Volpert, V. Volpert, V. Volpert, Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Systems, Transl. Math. Monogr., vol. 140, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994] and [D. Henry, Geometric Theory of Semilinear Parabolic Equations, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 840, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1981]).     

Asymptotic behavior of a class of reaction-diffusion equations with delays

The authors analyze asymptotic behavior of the partial functional differential equations, and the sufficient conditions on existence of global attractor of a class of reaction-diffusion equations with delays are given.     

Asymptotic stability of traveling wave fronts in nonlocal reaction–diffusion equations with delay

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic stability of traveling wave fronts of a class of nonlocal reaction–diffusion equations with delay. Under monostable assumption, we prove that the traveling wave front is exponentially stable by means of the (technical) weighted energy method, when the initial perturbation around the wave is suitable small in a weighted norm. The exponential convergent rate is also obtained. Finally, we apply our results to some population models and obtain some new results, which recover, complement and/or improve a number of existing ones.