Effect of cross-diffusion on the stationary problem of a Leslie prey-predator model with a protection zone

In this work, we study the change of behavior of positive solutions in a Leslie predator-prey model when a simple protection zone and cross-diffusion for the prey are introduced. We analyze the effects of cross-diffusion and protection zone on the bifurcation continuum of positive solutions. The asymptotic behavior of positive solutions is also discussed as the cross-diffusion and the birth rate of the predator tend to infinity, respectively. Finally, for small birth rates of two species and large cross-diffusion for the prey, the detailed structure and stability of positive solutions are established. Our results indicate that the environmental heterogeneity, together with large cross-diffusion, can produce much more complicated stationary patterns, moreover, our research here reveals significant difference from those studied in Du et al. (J Differ Equ 246:3932-3956, 2009), Oeda (J Differ Equ 250:3988-4009, 2011) and Wang and Li (Nonlinear Anal Real World Appl 14:224-245, 2013).     

Effect of cross-diffusion on the stationary problem of a prey-predator model with a protection zone

This paper is concerned with the stationary problem of a prey-predator cross-diffusion system with a protection zone for the prey. We discuss the existence and non-existence of coexistence states of the two species by using the bifurcation theory. As a result, it is shown that the cross-diffusion for the prey has beneficial effects on the survival of the prey when the intrinsic growth rate of the predator is positive. We also study the asymptotic behavior of positive stationary solutions as the cross-diffusion coefficient of the prey tends to infinity.     

Positive solutions for Lotka–Volterra competition system with large cross-diffusion in a spatially heterogeneous environment

In this paper, we study the stationary problem for the Lotka–Volterra competition system with cross-diffusion in a spatially heterogeneous environment. Although some sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions are obtained by using global bifurcation theory, the information for their structure is far from complete. In order to get better understanding of the competition system with cross-diffusion, we focus on the asymptotic behaviour of positive solutions and derive two shadow systems as the cross-diffusion coefficient tends to infinity, moreover, the structure of positive solutions of the limiting system is analysed. The result of asymptotic behaviour also reveals different phenomena from that studied in Wang and Li (2013).     

Asymptotic Behavior of the Solution to a 3-D Simplified Energy-Transport Model for Semiconductors

The well-posedness of smooth solution to a 3-Dsimplified Energy-Transport model is discussed in this paper. We prove the local existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic behavior of solution to the equations with hybrid cross-diffusion. The smooth solution convergences to a stationary solution with an exponential rate as time tends to infinity when the initial date is a small perturbation of the stationary solution.     

Analysis of a parabolic cross-diffusion population model without self-diffusion

The global existence of non-negative weak solutions to a strongly coupled parabolic system arising in population dynamics is shown. The cross-diffusion terms are allowed to be arbitrarily large, whereas the self-diffusion terms are assumed to disappear. The last assumption complicates the analysis since these terms usually provide H¹ estimates of the solutions. The existence proof is based on a positivity-preserving backward Euler-Galerkin approximation, discrete entropy estimates, and L¹ weak compactness arguments. Furthermore, employing the entropy-entropy production method, we show for special stationary solutions that the transient solution converges exponentially fast to its steady state. As a by-product, we prove that only constant steady states exist if the inter-specific competition parameters disappear no matter how strong the cross-diffusion constants are.     

Stationary pattern of a diffusive prey–predator model with trophic intersections of three levels

The paper is concerned with a diffusive prey–predator model subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition, which models the trophic intersections of three levels. We will prove that under certain assumptions, even though the unique positive constant steady state is globally asymptotically stable for the dynamics with diffusion, the non-constant positive steady state can exist due to the emergence of cross-diffusion. We demonstrate that the cross-diffusion can create stationary pattern. Moreover, we treat the cross-diffusion parameter as a bifurcation parameter and discuss the existence of non-constant positive solutions to the system with cross-diffusion.     

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.     

一类交叉扩散系统的定态解的分歧分析及稳定性

利用Liapunov-Schmidt方法证明了一类交叉扩散系统的发自平凡解的非平凡正定态解的存在性,并利用谱分析方法得到关于这个分歧解的稳定性的一个条件。     

Turing patterns of a strongly coupled predator-prey system with diffusion effects

The main purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of cross-diffusion in a strongly coupled predator-prey system. By a linear stability analysis we find the conditions which allow a homogeneous steady state (stable for the kinetics) to become unstable through a Turing mechanism. In particular, it is shown that Turing instability of the reaction-diffusion system can disappear due to the presence of the cross-diffusion, which implies that the cross-diffusion induced stability can be regarded as the cross-stability of the corresponding reaction-diffusion system. Furthermore, we consider the existence and non-existence results concerning non-constant positive steady states (patterns) of the system. We demonstrate that cross-diffusion can create non-constant positive steady-state solutions. These results exhibit interesting and very different roles of the cross-diffusion in the formation and the disappearance of the Turing instability.     

Spatial patterns of the Holling–Tanner predator–prey model with nonlinear diffusion effects

In this article, we study the Holling–Tanner predator–prey model with nonlinear diffusion terms under homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. The nonlinear diffusion terms here mean that the prey runs away from the predator, and the predator chases the prey. Nonexistence and existence of nonconstant positive steady states are obtained, which reveal that cross-diffusion can create spatial patterns even when the random diffusion fails to do so. Moreover, asymptotic behaviour of positive solutions as the cross-diffusion tends to ∞ is shown.     

Turing patterns induced by cross-diffusion in a predator-prey system in presence of habitat complexity

In this paper, we have investigated the phenomena of Turing pattern formation in a predator-prey model with habitat complexity in presence of cross diffusion. Using the linear stability analysis, the conditions for the existence of stationary pattern and the existence of Hopf bifurcation are obtained. It is shown analytically that the presence of cross diffusion in the system supports the formation of Turing pattern. Two parameter bifurcation analysis are done analytically and corresponding bifurcation diagrams are presented numerically. A series of simulation results are plotted for different biologically meaningful parameter values. Effects of variation of habitat complexity and the predator mortality rate and birth rate of prey on pattern formation are also reported. It is shown that cross-diffusion can lead to a wide variety of spatial and spatiotemporal pattern formation. It is found that the model exhibits spot and stripe pattern, and coexistence of both spot and strip patterns under the zero flux boundary condition. It is observed that cross-diffusion, habitat complexity, birth rate of prey and predator’s mortality rate play a significant role in the pattern formation of a distributed population system of predator-prey type.     

Existence and stability of global solutions for a cross-diffusion predator-prey model with sex-structure

By means of the energy estimates and the bootstrap arguments, this thesis investigates the global existence of solutions for a cross-diffusion predator-prey model with sex-structure when the space dimension is less than ten. Furthermore, by constructing a Lyapunov function, the sufficient condition of global asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium point for the model is given.     

Analysis of a viral infection model with delayed immune response

It is well known that the immune response plays an important role in eliminating or controlling the disease after human body is infected by virus. In this paper, we investigate the dynamical behavior of a viral infection model with retarded immune response. The effect of time delay on stability of the equilibria of the system has been studied and sufficient condition for local asymptotic stability of the infected equilibrium and global asymptotic stability of the infection-free equilibrium and the immune-exhausted equilibrium are given. By numerical simulating,we observe that the stationary solution becomes unstable at some critical immune response time, while the delay time and birth rate of susceptible host cells increase, and we also discover the occurrence of stable periodic solutions and chaotic dynamical behavior. The results can be used to explain the complexity of the immune state of patients.     

Full cross-diffusion limit in the stationary Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of coexistence steady-states of the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model as both cross-diffusion coefficients tend to infinity at the same rate. In the case when either one of two cross-diffusion coefficients tends to infinity, Lou and Ni [18] derived a couple of limiting systems, which characterize the asymptotic behavior of coexistence steady-states. Recently, a formal observation by Kan-on [10] implied the existence of a limiting system including the nonstationary problem as both cross-diffusion coefficients tend to infinity at the same rate. This paper gives a rigorous proof of his observation as far as the stationary problem. As a key ingredient of the proof, we establish a uniform $L^{\infty }$ estimate for all steady-states. Thanks to this a priori estimate, we show that the asymptotic profile of coexistence steady-states can be characterized by a solution of the limiting system.     

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.     

一类具有阶段结构的三次捕食者-食饵交错扩散系统的整体解

应用能量估计方法和Gagliardo-Nirenberg型不等式证明了一类强耦合反应扩散系统整体解的存在性和一致有界性,该系统是具有阶段结构的两种群Lotka-Volterra捕食者-食饵交错扩散模型的推广.通过构造Lyapunov函数给出了该系统正平衡点全局渐近稳定的充分条件.     

The Global Existence of Solutions for a Cross-diffusion System

This paper is concerned with the global existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear cross-diffusion system describing two species competition under self and cross population pressure. By establishing and using more detailed interpolation results between several different Banach spaces, the global existence of solutions are proved when the self and cross diffusion rates for the first species are positive and there is no self or cross-diffusion for the second species.     

一类非线性发展方程整体解的存在性、渐近性与解的爆破

研究一类非线性发展方程初边值问题整体弱解的存在性，渐近性和解的爆破问题，证明在关于非线性项的不同条件下，上述初边值问题分别在大初值和小初始能量的情况下存在整体弱解，并且讨论了弱解的渐近性。还证明：在相反的条件下，上述弱解在有限时刻爆破，并且给出了一个实例。     

Positive stationary solutions for a diffusive variable-territory prey-predator model

In this paper, we present results on the existence of positive stationary solutions for a diffusive variable-territory prey-predator model in heterogeneous environment, which improve and extend those of Wang and Pang (2009). In addition, the asymptotic behavior of solutions is also analyzed.