Viscosity solutions of a class of degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition

This paper is concerned with viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations in a bounded domain with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The equation under consideration arises from a number of practical model problems including reaction–diffusion processes in a porous medium. The degeneracy of the problem appears on the boundary and possibly in the interior of the domain. The goal of this paper is to establish some comparison properties between viscosity upper and lower solutions and to show the existence of a continuous viscosity solution between them. An application of the above results is given to a porous-medium type of reaction–diffusion model which demonstrates some distinctive properties of the solution when compared with the corresponding semilinear problem.     

Travelling waves for a biological reaction diffusion model with spatio-temporal delay

In this paper, we consider the reaction diffusion equations with spatio-temporal delay, which models the microbial growth in a flow reactor. Nonlocal spatial term, a weighted average in space, arises when the individuals have not necessarily been at the same point in space at previous time. By employing linear chain technique, geometric singular perturbation, and the center manifold theorem, we prove that the steady travelling wave does not only persist, but also it looks qualitatively the same as it do with no delay at all, under the introduction of delays, at least for small delay.     

Propagation dynamics of a time periodic diffusion equation with degenerate nonlinearity

This paper is on study of traveling wave solutions and asymptotic spreading of a class of time periodic diffusion equations with degenerate nonlinearity. The asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions is investigated by using auxiliary equations and a limit process. In addition, the monotonicity and uniqueness, up to translation, of traveling wave solution with critical speed are determined by sliding method. Finally, combining super and sub-solutions and the stability of steady states, some sufficient conditions on asymptotic spreading are given, which indicates that the success or failure of asymptotic spreading are dependent on the degeneracy of nonlinearity as well as the size of compact support of initial value.     

Persistence of traveling wave solutions in a bio-reactor model with nonlocal delays

By considering the random migration of individuals and the period of consuming the captured nutrient, we first introduce the nonlocal delays into a bio-reactor model. The persistence of nontrivial traveling wave solutions then is proved by combining the geometric singular perturbation theory with the center manifold theorem. From the viewpoint of biology, our results indicate that the nonlocality induced by small average delays is harmless to the growth of the species.     

The uniqueness of an indefinite nonlinear diffusion problem in population genetics,part II

We study the following Neumann problem which models the “complete dominance” case of population genetics of two alleles.

$\{\begin{array}{c}{u}_t=d{u}^{″}+g(x)u^2(1?u)\text{in}(0,1)\times (0,\infty ),\hfill \\ 0\le u\le 1\text{in}(0,1)\times (0,\infty ),\hfill \\ u^{\prime }(0,t)=u^{\prime }(1,t)=0\text{in}(0,\infty ),\hfill \end{array}$

where g changes sign in $(0,1)$. It is known that this equation has a nontrivial steady state $u_d$ for d sufficiently small [5]. It has been conjectured by Nagylaki and Lou [2] that $u_d$ is a unique nontrivial steady state if ${\int }_{\mathrm{\Omega }}g(x)dx\ge 0$. This was proved in [6] if g changes sign only once. In this paper under additional condition on $g(x)$ we treat the case when g has multiple zeros.     

一类反应扩散方程的奇摄动

讨论了一类奇摄动反应扩散方程的初边值问题. 在适当的条件下,利用不动点定理，证明了原问题解的存在唯一性及其渐近性态.     

Periodic solutions of a class of degenerate parabolic system with delays

This paper is concerned with a class of periodic degenerate parabolic system with time delays in a bounded domain under mixed boundary condition. Under locally Lipschitz condition on reaction functions, we apply Schauder fixed point theorem to obtain the existence of periodic solutions of the periodic problem. With quasi-monotonicity in addition, we also show that the periodic problem has a maximal and a minimal periodic solutions. Applications of the obtained results are also given to some nonlinear diffusion models arising from ecology.     

Analysis of a FEM for a coupled system of singularly perturbed reaction–diffusion equations

We consider a system of ℓ ≥ 2 one-dimensional singularly perturbed reaction–diffusion equations coupled at the zero-order term. The second derivative of each equation is multiplied by a distinct small parameter. We present a convergence theory for conforming linear finite elements on arbitrary meshes. As a result convergence independently of the perturbation parameters on a wide class of layer-adapted meshes is established.      

On a class of degenerate and singular elliptic systems in bounded domains

This paper deals with the nonexistence and multiplicity of nonnegative, nontrivial solutions to a class of degenerate and singular elliptic systems of the form

where Ω is a bounded domain with smooth boundary ∂Ω in , N2, and , , h_i (i=1,2) are allowed to have “essential” zeroes at some points in Ω, (F_u,F_v)=F, and λ is a positive parameter. Our proofs rely essentially on the critical point theory tools combined with a variant of the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality in [P. Caldiroli, R. Musina, On a variational degenerate elliptic problem, NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl. 7 (2000) 189–199].     

Traveling waves in a bio-reactor model

The existence of a family of traveling waves is established for a parabolic system modeling single species growth in a plug flow reactor, proving a conjecture of Kennedy and Aris (Bull. Math. Biol. 42 (1980) 397) for a similar system. The proof uses phase plane analysis, geometric singular perturbation theory and the center manifold theorem.     

Monotone iterative method of upper and lower solutions applied to a multilayer combustion model in porous media

This paper presents a new nonlinear reaction–diffusion–convection system coupled with a system of ordinary differential equations that models a combustion front in a multilayer porous medium. The model includes heat transfer between the layers and heat loss to the external environment. A few assumptions are made to simplify the model, such as incompressibility; then, the unknowns are determined to be the temperature and fuel concentration in each layer. When the fuel concentration in each layer is a known function, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a classical solution for the initial and boundary value problem for the corresponding system. The proof uses a new approach for combustion problems in porous media. We construct monotone iterations of upper and lower solutions and prove that these iterations converge to a unique solution for the problem, first locally and then, in time, globally.     

一类带时滞和全局反应项生物模型的行波解

研究了带时滞的微分方程异宿轨解的存在条件,并通过时滞微分系统和反应扩散系统解之间的关联性,得到了一类带全局反应项的生物反应扩散模型的行波解.     

Dynamics of a spatiotemporal model on populations in a polluted river

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics for a reaction–diffusion–advection system which models populations in a polluted river. More precisely, we study the stability of steady states, which yields sufficient conditions that lead to population persistence or extinction. Furthermore, some dependence of the stability of the toxicant-only steady state and the population-toxicant coexistence steady state on the model parameters are given.     

On a degenerate parabolic equation arising in pricing of Asian options

We study a certain one-dimensional, degenerate parabolic partial differential equation with a boundary condition which arises in pricing of Asian options. Due to degeneracy of the partial differential operator and the non-smooth boundary condition, regularity of the generalized solution of such a problem remained unclear. We prove that the generalized solution of the problem is indeed a classical solution.     

Traveling wave solutions for a non-monotone Logistic equation in a cylinder

The traveling wave solutions connecting two equilibria for a delayed Logistic equation in a cylinder are obtained for any delay $\tau >0$. We attain our goal by using the approach based on the combination of Schauder fixed point theory and the weak coupled upper–lower solutions method. Moreover, we prove that there is a constant $c^1$ that serves as the minimal wave speed of such traveling wave solutions.