Pulsating semi-waves in periodic media and spreading speed determined by a free boundary model

Title
Pulsating semi-waves in periodic media and spreading speed determined by a free boundary model
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Du, Yihong
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1235-0636
Email: ydu@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ydu
Liang, Xing
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Place of publication
Germany
DOI
10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.11.004
UNE publication id
une:18599
Abstract
We consider a radially symmetric free boundary problem with logistic nonlinear term. The spatial environment is assumed to be asymptotically periodic at infinity in the radial direction. For such a free boundary problem, it is known from [7] that a spreading-vanishing dichotomy holds. However, when spreading occurs, only upper and lower bounds are obtained in [7] for the asymptotic spreading speed. In this paper, we investigate one-dimensional pulsating semi-waves in spatially periodic media. We prove existence, uniqueness of such pulsating semi-waves, and show that the asymptotic spreading speed of the free boundary problem coincides with the speed of the corresponding pulsating semi-wave.
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Citation
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (C), Analyse Non Linéaire, 32(2), p. 279-305
ISSN
1873-1430
0294-1449
Start page
279
End page
305

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